Europa and the Bull
鈥淗e spoke, and immediately, as he commanded, the cattle, driven from the mountain, headed for the shore, where the great king鈥檚 daughter, E uropa , used to play together with the Tyrian virgins. Royalty and love do not sit well together, nor stay long in the same house. So the father and ruler of the gods, who is armed with the threeforkedlightning in his right hand, whose nod shakes the world, setting aside his royal sceptre, took on the shape of a bull, lowed among the other cattle, and, beautiful to look at, wandered in the tender grass.鈥�
Ovidio, Metamorphoses, Book II, Jupiter鈥檚 abduction of Europa
鈥淗e spoke, and immediately, as he commanded, the cattle, driven from the mountain, headed for the shore, where the great king鈥檚 daughter, E uropa , used to play together with the Tyrian virgins. Royalty and love do not sit well together, nor stay long in the same house. So the father and ruler of the gods, who is armed with the threeforkedlightning in his right hand, whose nod shakes the world, setting aside his royal sceptre, took on the shape of a bull, lowed among the other cattle, and, beautiful to look at, wandered in the tender grass.鈥�
Ovidio, Metamorphoses, Book II, Jupiter鈥檚 abduction of Europa
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