ipsa Venus, quamvis corrupta libidine Martis, nec minus in caelo semper honesta fuit, quamvis Ida illam pastorem dicat amasse atque inter pecudes accubuisse deam; hoc et Hamadryadum spectavit turba sororum Silenique senes et pater ipse chori, cum quibus Idaeo legisti poma sub antro, supposita excipiens, Nai, caduca manu.
Venus was never the worse thought of in heaven, though she herself yielded to her passion for Mars and though Ida tells that she loved a shepherd and amid his flocks gave herself, a goddess, to him; their amour was witnessed by the band of sister Hamadryads as well as by the elderly satyrs and the father of the company himself, with whom were Naiads gathering apples in the vales of Ida, catching them as they fell into their waiting hands.
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