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Mars’s steeds

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Mars’s steeds
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The divine team lent to Venus for the journey to Olympus.

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Mars’s steeds carried the goddesses to high Olympus and were unloosed and fed there.

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Mars gave her his gold-bedizened steeds. She mounted the chariot sick and sorry at heart, while Iris sat beside her and took the reins in her hand. She lashed her horses on and they flew forward nothing loth, till in a trice they were at high Olympus, where the gods have their dwelling. There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage

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Mars’s fleet steeds rest on a cloud beside him.

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with his spear and his two fleet steeds resting on a cloud;
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Mars’s gold-bedizened steeds carry Venus and Iris swiftly to Olympus, where Iris unharnesses them and gives them ambrosial forage.

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Mars gave her his gold-bedizened steeds. She mounted the chariot sick and sorry at heart, while Iris sat beside her and took the reins in her hand. She lashed her horses on and they flew forward nothing loth, till in a trice they were at high Olympus, where the gods have their dwelling. There she stayed them, unloosed them from the chariot, and gave them their ambrosial forage;

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his two fleet steeds

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Book 5 · Passage 31

The goddess went dazed and discomfited away, and Iris, fleet as the wind, drew her from the throng, in pain and with her fair skin all besmirched. She found fierce Mars waiting on the left of the battle, with his spear and his two fleet steeds resting on a cloud; whereon she fell on her knees before her brother and implored him to let her have his horses. ‘Dear brother,’ she cried, ‘save me, and give me your horses to take me to Olympus where the gods dwell. I am badly wounded by a mortal, the son of Tydeus, who would now fight even with father Jove.’