“When she was helpless in the power of sleep and even her serpent-hair was slumber-bound, I struck—”
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“She was once most beautiful, and the jealous aspiration of many suitors … They say that Neptune, lord of the seas, violated her in the temple of Minerva. Jupiter’s daughter turned away, and hid her chaste eyes behind her aegis. So that it might not go unpunished, she changed the Gorgon’s hair to foul snakes.”
