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And Aidoneus, ruler over the dead, smiled grimly and obeyed the behest of Zeus the king.
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Then Aidoneus the Ruler of Many openly got ready his deathless horses beneath the golden chariot.
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Demeter, and she bare white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother; but wise Zeus gave her to him.
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The king, his own name being Aidoneus, or Pluto, called his wife
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Now Hercules, passing by the Molossians, was entertained in his way by Aidoneus the king, who, in conversation, accidentally spoke of the journey of Theseus and Pirithous into his country, of what they had designed to do, and what they were forced to suffer.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Yet, goddess, cease your loud lament and keep not vain anger unrelentingly: Aidoneus, the
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'Whom, by the consent of far-seeing, deep-thundering Zeus, Aidoneus carried away, as she played with the deep-bosomed daughters of Ocean, gathering flowers in a meadow of soft grass and roses and crocus and fair violets and iris and hyacinths and the strange glory of the narcissus which the Earth, favouring the desire of Aidoneus, brought forth to snare the flower-like girl.
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And Aidoneus, ruler over the dead, smiled grimly and obeyed the behest of Zeus the king.
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Beside the single tree in his domain Aidoneus stayed the chariot.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926
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Through the darkened places of the earth Hermes went, and he came to that dark throne where the lord Aidoneus sat, with Persephone beside him.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926
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