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watching while the other gods
slept, because of the excitement of his passions, and was so overcome by the
sight of Hera that he is not even willing to go to their chamber, but wants
to lie with her there on the ground and says that he is possessed by a
fiercer desire than when they first consorted with one another, “‘Deceiving their dear
parents.’”Hom. Il. 14.296 Nor
will it profit them to hear of Hephaestus's fettering Ares and
Aphrodite1 for a like motive.” “No, by
Zeus,” he said,
1 Odyssey viii. 266 ff.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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