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[GCSE OCR] Latin Verse Literature > Ovid: "Echo and Narcissus" - TRANSLATION > Flashcards

Ovid: "Echo and Narcissus" - TRANSLATION Flashcards

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aspicit hunc trepidos agitantem in retia cervos

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As this man Narcissus was chasing the frightened deer into his nets,

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vocalis nymphe, quae nec reticere loquenti

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A talkative nymph noticed him, the answering Echo has not learned to keep quiet when someone is talking

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nec prius ipse loqui didicit, resonabilis Echo.

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And who cannot talk until spoken to first.

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corpus adhuc Echo, non vox, erat; et tamen usum

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Up till now Echo still had a body, and was not just a voice; and, although a chatterbox,

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garrula non alium, quam nunc habet, oris habebat,

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She enjoyed no more power of speech, than she does now,

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reddere, de multis ut verba novissima posset.

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Namely that she could only repeat the last words of the many she heard.

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ergo ubi Narcissum per devia rura vagantem

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Therefore, when she saw Narcissus wandering through lonely countryside

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vidit et incaluit, sequitur vestigia furtim,

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And she fell in love with him, she followed his footsteps secretly,

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quoque magis sequitur, flamma propiore calescit,

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And the more she followed, the more the flame of passion burns within her,

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non aliter quam cum summis circumlita taedis

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Just as when quick-to-ignite sulphur, smeared around on the tops of torches,

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admotas rapiunt vivacia sulphura flammas.

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Catches fire from flames brought near.

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o quotiens voluit blandis accedere dictis

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Oh, how often did she want to approach him with sweet words

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et molles adhibere preces. natura repugnat

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And to use gentle prayers. Her condition prevents it

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nec sinit incipiat; sed, quod sinit, illa parata est

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And it doesn’t allow to even begin; but, she is ready

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exspectare sonos, ad quos sua verba remittat.

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To do what her nature does allow, to wait for sounds, to which she may talk back with her own words.

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forte puer comitum seductus ab agmine fido

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By chance a boy separated from his trusty group of friends

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dixerat “ecquis adest?” et “adest” responderat Echo.

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Had said, “Is anyone here?” and Echo had replied, “Here”.

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hic stupet, utque aciem partes dimittit in omnes,

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He is astonished, as he gazes around in all directions,

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voce “veni!” magna clamat; vocat illa vocantem.

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In a loud voice he shouts, “Come!” as she calls back.

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respicit et rurus nullo veniente “quid” inquit

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He looks around and as no one is coming, he says again, “Why

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“me fugis?” et totidem, quot dixit, verba recepit.

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Do you flee from me?” and he heard back as many words as he has spoken.

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perstat et alternae deceptus imagine vocis,

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He persists and being deceived by the illusion of an answering voice,

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“huc coeamus” ait nullique libentius umquam

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He says, “Here let’s meet” and Echo, who would never make a more willing

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responsura sono “coeamus” rettulit Echo

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Reply to any sound, replied, “Let’s meet”;

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et verbis favet ipsa suis egressaque silva

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and she is as good as her own words and having come out of the forest

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ibat, ut iniceret sperato bracchia collo.

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She made her way in order to throw her arms around the neck she hopes to hold.

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ille fugit fugiensque “manus complexibus aufer;

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But he runs away and while he is fleeing, says “Take your hands away

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ante” ait “emoriar, quam sit tibi copia nostri.”

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From embracing me; may I die before you have any enjoyment of me.”

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rettulit illa nihil nisi “sit tibi copia nostri.”

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She made no reply except, “You have any enjoyment of me.”

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spreta latet silvis pudibundaque frondibus ora

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Having been rejected she hides in the forest and, emabarrased, covers

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protegit et solis ex illo vivit in antris;

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Her face with foliage and from that time on lives in caves all alone;

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sed tamen haeret amor crescitque dolore repulsae

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But still her love persists and grows with the pain of rejection:

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attenuant vigiles corpus miserabile curae,

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Her sleepless anxiety weakens her pitiable body,

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adducitque cutem macies, et in aera sucus

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And her thinness shrinks her skin, and all the moisture

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corporis omnis abit; vox tantum atque ossa supersunt:

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of her body goes off into thin air; only her voice and bones remain:

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vox manet: ossa ferunt lapidis traxisse figuram.

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Then only her voice remains: people say that her bones have taken on the appearance of stone.

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inde latet silvis nulloque in monte videtur.

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From then on, she hides away in the forest and is not seen on any mountain.

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omnibus auditur: sonus est, qui vivit in illa.

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But she is heard by everyone: for it is her voice that is all that remains of her.

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hic puer, et studio venandi lassus et aestu,

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Here the boy, tired both from his enthusiasm for hunting and from the heat,

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procubuit faciemque loci fontemque secutus;

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Lay down, and is attracted both by the appearance of the place and the spring;

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dumque sitim sedare cupit, sitis altera crevit,

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And while he longs to quench his thirst, another thirst grows,

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dumque bibit, viase correptus imagine formae,

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And while he drinks, he is captivated by the beautiful reflection he saw,

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spem sine corpore amat, corpus putat esse, quod umbra est.

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He is in love with a hope that is without form, and he thinks because there is a reflection there is a body.

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astupet ipse sibi vultuque immotus eodem

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He is astonished at himself and stayed stock still with the same expression

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haeret, ut e Pario formatum mamore signum

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Like a statue shaped from Parian marble

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spectat humi positus geminum, sua lumina, sidus

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Lying on the ground he gazes at his own eyes, twin stars

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et dignos Baccho, dignos et Apolline crines,

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And worthy of Bacchus, and at his hair worthy of Apollo,

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impubesque genas et eburnea colla decusque

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And at his youthful cheeks and his ivory-coloured neck and the beauty

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oris et in niveo mixtum candore ruborem,

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Of his face and its blush mixed with a snow-white radiance,

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cunctaque miratur, quibus est mirabilis ipse.

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He admires every aspect for which he is himself admired.

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se cupit inprudens et, qui probat, ipse probatur,

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He desires himself unknowingly and he who fancies is fancied

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dumque, petit, petitur, pariterque accendit et ardet.

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And while he seeks, he is sought and equally he sets on fire and burns with love.

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irrita fallaci quotiens dedit oscula fonti!

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How often he gave vain kisses to the deceitful spring!

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in mediis quotiens visum captantia collum

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How often did he plunge his arms into the middle of the water

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bracchia mersit aquis nec se deprendit in illis!

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Trying to catch the image of his neck, but he could not catch himself in them!

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quid videat nescit, sed quod videt uritur illo

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He does not know what he sees, but what he sees burns in him

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atque oculos idem qui decipit incitat error.

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And the same illusion, which deceives his eyes, urges his eyes on.

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quae simul aspexit liquefacta rursus in unda,

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As soon as he notices this, in the water that had cleared again,

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non tulit ulterius sed, ut intabescere flavae

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He cannot bear it any longer, but as yellow wax usually melts

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igne levi cerae matutinaeque pruinae

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With a great flame and as the morning frosts

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sole tepente solent, sic attenuatus amore

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Warm in the sun, so does he fade away, having been weakened by love

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liquitur et tecto paulatim carpitur igni;

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And he is gradually consumed by a hidden flame;

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et neque iam color est mixto candore rubori,

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And his rosy-white complexion now has no glow

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nec vigor et vires et quae modo visa placebant,

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And he has no vigour and strength, those things which he had recently seen and liked,

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nec corpus remanet, quondam quod amaverat Echo.

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And his body which once Echo had loved, did not last.

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quae tamen ut vidit, quamvis irata memorque

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However, when she saw this, although still angry and mindful,

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indoluit, quotiensque puer miserabilis “eheu”

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She felt sorry for him and whenever the wretched boy cried, “Alas”

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dixerat, haec resonis iterabat vocibus “eheu”.

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She would repeat the “Alas” with her echoing voice.

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cumque suos manibus percusserat ille lacertos,

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And when he had been striking his own arms with his fists,

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haec quoque reddebat sonitum plangoris eundem.

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Echo would give back the same sounds of grief as well.

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ultima vox solitam fuit haec spectantis in undam:

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The last words of Narcissus as he gazed into the familiar water, were these:

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“heu frustra dilecte puer!” totidemque remisit

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“Alas, boy loved in vain!” and the place sent back the same words,

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verba locus, dictoque vale, “vale” inquit et Echo.

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And when he had said, “Fairwell,” Echo said, “Fairwell” too.

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ille caput viridi fessum summisit in herba,

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He laid down his tired head on the green grass,

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lumina mors clausit domini mirantia formam.

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And death closed the eyes that were admiring the form of their master.

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tum quoque se, postquam est inferna sede receptus

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After he had been received into the abode of the lower world, even then he

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in Stygia spectabat aqua. planxere sorores

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Would look at himself in the waters of the River Styx. The water-nymphs his sisters

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Naides et sectos fratri posuere capillos,

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Wailed and offered their cut hair to their brother,

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planxerunt Dryades; plangentibus assonat Echo.

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The wood-nymphs wailed too; and Echo returns the sound of their laments.

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iamque rogum quassasque faces feretrumque parabant:

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And now they were preparing his funeral pyre, the torches that would be brandished at funerals and the bier itself;

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nusquam corpus erat; croceum pro corpore florem

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But his body was nowhere to be found, in place of his body

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inveniunt foliis medium cingentibus albis.

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They find a yellow flower, with white petals surrounding the middle of the flower.

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