Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—s…

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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
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