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[pg<br />

115]<br />

(Fair e'en in heavenly eyes: her<br />

fruitful love<br />

Crown'd with Sarpedon's birth the<br />

embrace <strong>of</strong> Jove;)<br />

But when at last, distracted in his<br />

mind,<br />

Forsook by heaven, forsaking humankind,<br />

Wide o'er the Aleian field he chose<br />

to stray,<br />

A long, forlorn, uncomfortable<br />

way! 170<br />

Woes heap'd on woes consumed his<br />

wasted heart:<br />

His beauteous daughter fell by<br />

Phoebe's dart;<br />

His eldest born by raging Mars was<br />

slain,<br />

In combat on the Solymaean plain.<br />

Hippolochus survived: from him I<br />

came,

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