‘When the young princess went out on her morning walks through the streets, victims were offered in her honour, sacred feasts spread for her, flowers scattered in her path, and ro garlands prented to her by an adoring crowd of suppliants who addresd her by all the titles that really belonged to the Great Goddess of Love herlf. This extraordinary transfer of divine honours to a mortal naturally angered the true Venus. Unable to suppress her feelings, she shook her head menacingly and said to herlf: "Really now, whoever would have thought that I’d be treated like this? I, all the world’s lovely Venus whom the philosophers call ‘the Universal Mother’ and the original source of all five elements! So I’m expected to share my sovereignty, am I, with a mortal who goes about pretending to be mylf? And to watch my bright name, which is registered in Heaven, being dragged through the dirty mud of the earth! Oh, yes, and I must be content, of cour, with the reflected glory of worship paid
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to this girl, grateful for a share in the expiatory sacrifices offered to her instead of me? It
means nothing, I suppo when the shepherd Paris who just and honest verdict Jupiter himlf confirmed, awarded me the apple of beauty over the heads of my two goddess rivals? No, it’s quite absurd. I can’t let this silly creature, whoever she may be, usurp my glory any longer. I’ll very soon make her sick and sorry about her good looks: they are dead against the rules."
‘She at once called her winged son Eros, alias Cupid, that very wicked boy, with neither manners nor respect for the decencies, who spends his time running from building to building all night long with his torch and his arrows, breaking up respectable homes. Somehow he never gets punished for all the harm he does, though he never ems to do anything good in compensation. Venus knew that he was naturally bent on mischief, but she tempted him to still wor behavior by bringing him to the city where the princess lived—her name, by the way, was Psyche—and telling him the whole story of the new cult that had grown up around her. Groaning with indignation she said: "I implore you, darling, as you love your mother, to u your dear little arrows and that sweet torch of yours against this impudent girl. If you have any respect for me, you’ll give me my reveng
e, revenge in full. You’ll e that the princess falls desperately in love with some perfect outcast of a man—someone who has lost rank, fortune, everything, someone who goes about in terror his life and in such complete degradation that nobody viler can be found in the whole world."
毫伦琴somewhat‘And she kisd him long and tenderly and then went to the near by a-shore, where she ran along the tops of the waves as they
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负责人 翻译danced foaming towards her. At the touch of her rosy feet the whole a suddenly calmed, and she had no sooner willed the powers of the deep to appear, than up they bobbed as though she had shouted their names. The Nereids were there, singing a part song; and Neptune, sometimes called Portumnus, with his blueish beard; his wife Salacia, the naughty goddess of the deep a, with a lapful of aphrodisiac fish; and little
Palaemon, their charioteer, riding on a dolphin. After the came troops of Tritons swimming about in all directions, one blowing softly on his conch-shell, another protecting Venus from sunburn with a silk parasol, a third holding a mirror for her to admire herlf in, and a whole team of them, yoked two and two, harnesd to her car. When Venus goes for an ocean crui she’s attended by quite an army of retainers.
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