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on 1 April 2002 (#513244)

"I begin my song with the Heliconian Muses; they have made Helicon, the great god-haunted mountain, their domain; their soft feet move in the dance that rings the violet-dark spring and the altar of mighty Zeus. They bathe their lithe bodies in the water of Permessos or of Hippocrene or of god-haunted Olmeios. On Helicon's peak they join hands in lovely dances and their pounding feet awaken desire."

from Hesiod's Theogony translated by Apostolos Athanassakis

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