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Book 1, Lines 96–97

Athena’s Winged Sandals

A

So ending, underneath her feet she bound

Her faery sandals of ambrosial gold,

Which o’er the waters and the solid ground

Swifter than wind have borne her from of old ;

B

she fastened under her feet those fine shoes, imperishable shoes of gold, which used to carry her over moist and dry to the ends of the earth, quick as the blowing of the breeze;

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