Origen, AGAINST CELSUS, Part III, Complete

Translated from the Greek original by Frederick Crombie.

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Page 63

He said; their king th' inferior powers obeyed:

The fictile likeness of a bashful maid

Rose from the temper'd earth, by Jove's behest,

Under the forming god; the zone and vest

Were clasp'd and folded by Minerva's hand:

The heaven-born graces, and persuasion bland

Deck'd her round limbs with chains of gold: the hours

Of loose locks twined her temples with spring flowers.

The whole attire Minerva's curious care

Form'd to her shape, and fitted to her air.

But in her breast the herald from above,

Full of the counsels of deep thundering Jove,

Wrought artful manners, wrought perfidious lies,

And speech that thrills the blood, and lulls the wise.

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