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* ** When the contention between Poseidon and Athene for the
patronage of Athens was decided in favour of the latter, Poseidon
in anger imprecated perpetual dvcrfiovMa. on the new city. Now
the decrees of deities were, like those of the Medes and Persians^
supposed to be irreversible, even by themselves : what one god
had done, no other, not even himself, could undo ; but he could
virtually nullify the effect by a subsequent decree. And so in the
instance before us, Athene could not change the curse of perpetual

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