“But Juno and the virgin daughter of supreme Jove were sharing heart to heart their inmost counsels and distracting cares.”

— Gaius Valerius Flaccus , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book V, Lines 280–281

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At Iuno et summi virgo Iovis intima secum consilia et varias sociabant pectore curas.

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