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Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses Book VIII

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Caries and Gaunt Famine

Caries and gaunt famine called forth from mountain wilds a rustic aureid the goddess caries said to her there is an ice bound wilderness of barren soil where torpid frost white death and palsy and gaunts famine hold their homps. The nymph with keen sight saw the famine monster fearing to draw near she cried aloud the mandate she had brought from fruitful caries. Although the time had been but bereaved and famine far away such hunger seized the nymph she had to turn her dragon steeds and flee through yielding air as grim famine hastened to obey the will of caries though their deeds are opposite.

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