Then in return Zeus who gathers the clouds made answer: “Dear lady, I never escape you; you are always full of suspicion. Yet thus you can accomplish nothing surely, but be more distant from my heart than ever, and it will be the worse for you. If what you say is true, then that is the way I wish it. 565 But go then, sit down in silence, and do as I tell you, for fear all the gods, as many as are on Olympos, can do nothing if I come close and lay my unconquerable hands upon you.” He spoke, and the goddess the ox-eyed lady Hera was frightened and went and sat down in silence wrenching her
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