Aeneid Book 1, lines 387 - 409

Venus’s swans

by Virgil

'Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus caelestibus auras

The oracle of the swans brings good news to Aeneas

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Metamorphoses Book 2, lines 150 - 177

Phaethon

by Ovid

Occupat ille levem juvenali corpore currum

Phaethon's ride in the chariot of the Sun begins.

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