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         <p><note>“Pygmalion | Greek Mythology.” Encyclopedia Britannica,
               https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pygmalion. Accessed 15 Feb.
                  2018.</note><hi><persName ref="#Pygmalion">Pygmalion</persName></hi> had seen
            them, spending their lives in wickedness, and, offended by the failings that nature gave
            the female heart, he lived as a bachelor, without a wife or partner for his bed. But,
            with wonderfull skill, he carved a figure, brilliantly, out of snow-white ivory, no
               <fw>496</fw><pb/> mortal woman, and fell in love with his own creation. The features
            are those of a real girl, who, you might think, lived, and wished to move, if modesty
            did not forbid it. Indeed, art hides his art. He marvels: and passion, for this bodily
            image, consumes his heart. Often, he runs his hands over the work, tempted as to whether
            it is flesh or ivory, not admitting it to be ivory, he kisses it and thinks his kisses
            are retunred; and speaks to it; and holds it, and imagines that his fingers press into
            the the limbs, and is afraid lest bruises appear from the pressure. Now he adresses it
            with compliments, now brings it gifts that please girls, shells and polished pebbeles,
            little birds, and many- coloured flowers, lilies and tinted beads. and the <note>Is
               Daughter to the sun god Helios.HELIADES - Poplar-Tree Nymphs of Greek Mythology.
               http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphaiHeliades.html. Accessed 19 Feb.
               2018.</note><persName ref="#Heliade's"><hi>Heliades's</hi></persName> amber tears,
            that drip from the trees. He dresses the body, also, in clothing; places rings on the
            fingers; places a long necklace round its neck; pearls hang from the ears, and cinctures
            round the breasts. All are fitting: but it appears no less lovely, naked. He arranges
            the statue on a bed which cloths <fw>497</fw><pb/> dyed with <note>(Aka Royal Purple or
               Imperial Purple) a color extracted from shellfish Tyrian Purple - Ancient History
               Encyclopedia. https://www.ancient.eu/Tyrian_Purple/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018.</note>
            <hi><ref>Tyrian</ref>ref</hi> murex are spread, and calls it his bedfellow, and rests
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         <p> The day of <note> "In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love, sex, beauty, and
               fertility." Venus - Ancient History Encyclopedia. https://www.ancient.eu/venus/.
               Accessed 19 Feb. 2018. </note><persName ref="#Venus"><hi>Venus</hi></persName>'s
            festival came, celebrated throughout <note>Cyprus is an island located in the eastern
               Meditterranean Sea. Believed that name of island was given by Goddess
               Aphrodite.“Cyprus.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, https://www.ancient.eu/cyprus/.
               Accessed 19 Feb. 2018 </note><placeName ref="#Cyprus"><hi>Cyprus</hi></placeName>,
            and heifers, their curved horns gilded, fell, to the blow on their snowy neck. The
            incense was smoking, when Pygmalion, having made his offering, stood by the altar, and
            said, shyly: "If you can grant all things, you gods, I wish as a bride to have..." and
            not daring to say "the girl of ivory" he said "one like my ivory girl." Golden Venus,
            for she herself was present at the festival, knew what the prayer meant, and as a sign
            of the gods' fondness for him, the flame flared three times, and shook its crown in the
            air. When he returned, he sought out the image of his girl, and leaning over the couch,
            kissed her. She felt warm: he pressed his lips to her again, and also touched her breast
            with his hand. The ivory yieled to his touch, and lost its hardness, altering under its
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            wrong, reaffirms the fulfilment of his wishes , with his hand, again, and again.</p>
         <p> It was flesh! The pulse throbbed under his thumb. Then the hero, of <note>"It was a
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               legendary birthplace was on this island."Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. “Paphos.”
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            the light, saw both her lover and the sky. The goddess attached the marriage that she
            had brought about, when the moon's horns had nine times met at the full, the womans bore
            a son, <note>Variartion in some sources say that Paphos is a
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Pygmalion with notes on Greek and Roman Mythology A.S Kline Mackenzie Reh

Copyright 2000 A.S Kline, All rights reserved Collection: Open source

This edition was loctaed on archive.org in a digital ediiton format. The book was uploaded to archive.org by Lucie Bel. From an online Edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Translated by A.S Kline who goes by Tony Kline. The text is reprsented in what looks like is pictures of the book itself

Bk X: 243-297 Orpheus signs: Pygmalion and the statue

1 “Pygmalion | Greek Mythology.” Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pygmalion. Accessed 15 Feb. 2018. Pygmalion had seen them, spending their lives in wickedness, and, offended by the failings that nature gave the female heart, he lived as a bachelor, without a wife or partner for his bed. But, with wonderfull skill, he carved a figure, brilliantly, out of snow-white ivory, no 496 mortal woman, and fell in love with his own creation. The features are those of a real girl, who, you might think, lived, and wished to move, if modesty did not forbid it. Indeed, art hides his art. He marvels: and passion, for this bodily image, consumes his heart. Often, he runs his hands over the work, tempted as to whether it is flesh or ivory, not admitting it to be ivory, he kisses it and thinks his kisses are retunred; and speaks to it; and holds it, and imagines that his fingers press into the the limbs, and is afraid lest bruises appear from the pressure. Now he adresses it with compliments, now brings it gifts that please girls, shells and polished pebbeles, little birds, and many- coloured flowers, lilies and tinted beads. and the 2 Is Daughter to the sun god Helios.HELIADES - Poplar-Tree Nymphs of Greek Mythology. http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphaiHeliades.html. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018. Heliades's amber tears, that drip from the trees. He dresses the body, also, in clothing; places rings on the fingers; places a long necklace round its neck; pearls hang from the ears, and cinctures round the breasts. All are fitting: but it appears no less lovely, naked. He arranges the statue on a bed which cloths 497 dyed with 3 (Aka Royal Purple or Imperial Purple) a color extracted from shellfish Tyrian Purple - Ancient History Encyclopedia. https://www.ancient.eu/Tyrian_Purple/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018. Tyrianref murex are spread, and calls it his bedfellow, and rests its neck against soft down, as if it could feel.

The day of 4 "In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love, sex, beauty, and fertility." Venus - Ancient History Encyclopedia. https://www.ancient.eu/venus/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018. Venus 's festival came, celebrated throughout 5 Cyprus is an island located in the eastern Meditterranean Sea. Believed that name of island was given by Goddess Aphrodite.“Cyprus.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, https://www.ancient.eu/cyprus/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018 Cyprus , and heifers, their curved horns gilded, fell, to the blow on their snowy neck. The incense was smoking, when Pygmalion, having made his offering, stood by the altar, and said, shyly: "If you can grant all things, you gods, I wish as a bride to have..." and not daring to say "the girl of ivory" he said "one like my ivory girl." Golden Venus, for she herself was present at the festival, knew what the prayer meant, and as a sign of the gods' fondness for him, the flame flared three times, and shook its crown in the air. When he returned, he sought out the image of his girl, and leaning over the couch, kissed her. She felt warm: he pressed his lips to her again, and also touched her breast with his hand. The ivory yieled to his touch, and lost its hardness, altering under its fingers, as the bees' wax of 6 Also known as Hymettos, is a mountain range in Athens, Greece. Hymettus softens in the sun, and is moulded, 498 under the thumb, into many forms, made usable by use. The lover is stupefied, and joyful, but uncertain, and afraid he is wrong, reaffirms the fulfilment of his wishes , with his hand, again, and again.

It was flesh! The pulse throbbed under his thumb. Then the hero, of 7 "It was a centre of the cult of Aphrodite and of pre-Hellenic fertility deities. Aphrodite's legendary birthplace was on this island."Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. “Paphos.” UNESCO World Heritage Centre, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/79/. Accessed 15 Feb. 2018. Paphos was indeed overfull of words with which to thank Venus, and still pressed his mouth against a mouth that was not merely a likeness. The girl felt the kisses he gave, blushed, and, raising her bashful eyes to the light, saw both her lover and the sky. The goddess attached the marriage that she had brought about, when the moon's horns had nine times met at the full, the womans bore a son, 8 Variartion in some sources say that Paphos is a girl. Paphos , from whom the island takes its name.'499

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Pygmalion with notes on Greek and Roman Mythology A.S Kline Mackenzie Reh

Copyright 2000 A.S Kline, All rights reserved Collection: Open source

This edition was loctaed on archive.org in a digital ediiton format. The book was uploaded to archive.org by Lucie Bel. From an online Edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Translated by A.S Kline who goes by Tony Kline. The text is reprsented in what looks like is pictures of the book itself

Bk X: 243-297 Orpheus signs: Pygmalion and the statue

“Pygmalion | Greek Mythology.” Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pygmalion. Accessed 15 Feb. 2018. Pygmalion had seen them, spending their lives in wickedness, and, offended by the failings that nature gave the female heart, he lived as a bachelor, without a wife or partner for his bed. But, with wonderfull skill, he carved a figure, brilliantly, out of snow-white ivory, no 496 mortal woman, and fell in love with his own creation. The features are those of a real girl, who, you might think, lived, and wished to move, if modesty did not forbid it. Indeed, art hides his art. He marvels: and passion, for this bodily image, consumes his heart. Often, he runs his hands over the work, tempted as to whether it is flesh or ivory, not admitting it to be ivory, he kisses it and thinks his kisses are retunred; and speaks to it; and holds it, and imagines that his fingers press into the the limbs, and is afraid lest bruises appear from the pressure. Now he adresses it with compliments, now brings it gifts that please girls, shells and polished pebbeles, little birds, and many- coloured flowers, lilies and tinted beads. and the Is Daughter to the sun god Helios.HELIADES - Poplar-Tree Nymphs of Greek Mythology. http://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphaiHeliades.html. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018. Heliades's amber tears, that drip from the trees. He dresses the body, also, in clothing; places rings on the fingers; places a long necklace round its neck; pearls hang from the ears, and cinctures round the breasts. All are fitting: but it appears no less lovely, naked. He arranges the statue on a bed which cloths 497 dyed with (Aka Royal Purple or Imperial Purple) a color extracted from shellfish Tyrian Purple - Ancient History Encyclopedia. https://www.ancient.eu/Tyrian_Purple/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018. Tyrianref murex are spread, and calls it his bedfellow, and rests its neck against soft down, as if it could feel.

The day of "In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love, sex, beauty, and fertility." Venus - Ancient History Encyclopedia. https://www.ancient.eu/venus/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018. Venus 's festival came, celebrated throughout Cyprus is an island located in the eastern Meditterranean Sea. Believed that name of island was given by Goddess Aphrodite.“Cyprus.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, https://www.ancient.eu/cyprus/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2018 Cyprus , and heifers, their curved horns gilded, fell, to the blow on their snowy neck. The incense was smoking, when Pygmalion, having made his offering, stood by the altar, and said, shyly: "If you can grant all things, you gods, I wish as a bride to have..." and not daring to say "the girl of ivory" he said "one like my ivory girl." Golden Venus, for she herself was present at the festival, knew what the prayer meant, and as a sign of the gods' fondness for him, the flame flared three times, and shook its crown in the air. When he returned, he sought out the image of his girl, and leaning over the couch, kissed her. She felt warm: he pressed his lips to her again, and also touched her breast with his hand. The ivory yieled to his touch, and lost its hardness, altering under its fingers, as the bees' wax of Also known as Hymettos, is a mountain range in Athens, Greece. Hymettus softens in the sun, and is moulded, 498 under the thumb, into many forms, made usable by use. The lover is stupefied, and joyful, but uncertain, and afraid he is wrong, reaffirms the fulfilment of his wishes , with his hand, again, and again.

It was flesh! The pulse throbbed under his thumb. Then the hero, of "It was a centre of the cult of Aphrodite and of pre-Hellenic fertility deities. Aphrodite's legendary birthplace was on this island."Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. “Paphos.” UNESCO World Heritage Centre, http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/79/. Accessed 15 Feb. 2018. Paphos was indeed overfull of words with which to thank Venus, and still pressed his mouth against a mouth that was not merely a likeness. The girl felt the kisses he gave, blushed, and, raising her bashful eyes to the light, saw both her lover and the sky. The goddess attached the marriage that she had brought about, when the moon's horns had nine times met at the full, the womans bore a son, Variartion in some sources say that Paphos is a girl. Paphos , from whom the island takes its name.'499

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