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There by the counsel of Zeus who drives the clouds the Titan gods [730]
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are hidden
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gloom, in270-303lines
a dank place304-336lines
where are the337-370lines
ends of the
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huge earth.
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fixed gates of bronze
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and great-souled Obriareus [735] live, trusty warders of Zeus who holds
the aegis. And there, all in their order, are the sources and ends of
gloomy earth and misty Tartarus and the unfruitful sea and starry heaven,
loathsome and dank, which even the gods abhor. [740] It is a great gulf,

and if once a man were within the gates, he would not reach the floor

until a whole year had reached its end, but cruel blast upon blast would730
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carry him this way and that. And this marvel is awful even to the
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deathless gods. There stands the awful home of murky Night [745]
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wrapped in dark clouds. In front of it the son of Iapetus1stands
immovably upholding the wide heaven upon his head and unwearying

hands, where Night and Day draw near and greet one another as they 735
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pass the great threshold [750] of bronze: and while the one is about to go
down into the house, the other comes out at the door. And the house

never holds them both within; but always one is without the house

passing over the earth, while the other stays at home and waits until the

time for her journeying comes; [755] and the one holds all-seeing light
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for them on earth, but the other holds in her arms Sleep the brother of
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Death, even evil Night, wrapped in a vaporous cloud. And there the 740
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children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful

gods. [760] The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams,
neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven.
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And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea's
broad back and is kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and 745
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spirit within him [765] is pitiless as bronze: whomever of men he has
once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods.
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Hesiod. The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Theogony. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press;
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