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Danae

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Danae
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daughter of Acrisius

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·Remembered

Jove recalls daintily-ankled Danae, daughter of Acrisius, bearing him the famed hero Perseus.

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“Danae the daintily-ancled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus.”

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·Remembered
“Danae the daintily-ancled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus”

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Book 14 · Passage 25

And Jove said, ‘Juno, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus—for the present let us devote ourselves to love and to the enjoyment of one another. Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself—not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithous, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintily-ancled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus. Then there was the daughter of Phoenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus: there was Semele, and Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Hercules, while Semele became mother to Bacchus the comforter of mankind. There was queen Ceres again, and lovely Leto, and yourself—but with none of these was I ever so much enamoured as I now am with you.’