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HERMES
Let us make straight for Phrygia; I will lead the way, and you follow me without delaying. Be of good courage; I know Paris. He is young and handsome and in every way susceptible to love; just the sort to decide such questions. He would not judge amiss, not he.APHRODITE
What you say is all to the good and in my favour, that our judge is just. Is he unmarried, or does some woman live with him?HERMES
Not quite unmarried, Aphrodite.APHRODITE
What do you mean by that?HERMES
Apparently someone is living with him, a woman from Mount Ida, well enough, but countrified and terribly unsophisticated; however, he does not seem . to think much of her. 1 But why do you ask?APHRODITE
It was just a casual question.Dearum judicium. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.
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