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Z EUS was once overheard to shout at Hera:
‘You hate it, do you? Well, I hate it worse—
East wind in May, sirocco all the Summer.
Hell take this whole impossible Universe!’

A scholiast explains his warm rejoinder,
Which sounds too man-like for Olympic use,
By noting that the snake-tailed Chthonian winds
Were answerable to Fate alone, not Zeus.
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