Gold-haired Phoebus borne by Koios's daughterafter she joined with Kronos's son Zeus god of high clouds and high name.Artemis swore the great oath of the gods to Zeus:'By your head, I shall always be a virginuntamed, hunting on peaks of solitary mountains.Come, grant me this grace!'So she spoke. Then the father of the blessed godsnodded his consent. Now gods and mortalscall her by her thrilling eponym, The Virgin Deer Hunter.Eros, loosener of limbs, never comes near her
-Sappho
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