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“I believe,” he said in jest, “it was by providing a feast of such things that Circe made swine; and it was partly by the prompting of Hermes,1 partly through his own self-restraint and avoidance of excessive indulgence in such things, that Odysseus was not turned into a pig.”
1 In Odyssey, X. 281 f.
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