VENUS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 Jove's daughter Venus is always dishonouring me because I am lame.
2 But Venus took care of them, and fed them on cheese, honey, and sweet wine.
3 Penelope came out of her room looking like Diana or Venus, and wept as she flung her arms about her son.
4 But Mars kept no blind look out, and as soon as he saw him start, hurried off to his house, burning with love for Venus.
5 Meanwhile the bard began to sing the loves of Mars and Venus, and how they first began their intrigue in the house of Vulcan.
6 Mars made Venus many presents, and defiled King Vulcan's marriage bed, so the sun, who saw what they were about, told Vulcan.
7 This son, Megapenthes, was born to him of a bondwoman, for heaven vouchsafed Helen no more children after she had borne Hermione, who was fair as golden Venus herself.
8 Then Penelope came down from her room looking like Venus or Diana, and they set her a seat inlaid with scrolls of silver and ivory near the fire in her accustomed place.
9 She washed her face with the ambrosial loveliness that Venus wears when she goes dancing with the Graces; she made her taller and of a more commanding figure, while as for her complexion it was whiter than sawn ivory.