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Excerpt from The Tale of Troy
Meanwhile at Phthia in Thessaly there came about the famous wedding of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons, with Thetis, the silver-footed goddess of the sea, whom he caught in a cave by the seashore, and held fast, though she tried to slip from his grasp by enchantment, and changed her shape seven times. She changed to water, to vapour, and to burning ?ame; and to a rock, and to a black-maned lion, and to a tall and stately tree. But Peleus remembered what Cheiron.
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