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If it was a heavy blow to the father to learn that his child was dead,
it yet more strongly affected him to think that the very man whom he
himself once purified had done the deed. In the violence of his grief
he called aloud on Jupiter Catharsius to be a witness of what he had
suffered at the stranger's hands. Afterwards he invoked the same god
as Jupiter Ephistius and Hetaereus - using the one term because he
had unwittingly harboured in his house the man who had now slain his
son; and the other, because the stranger, who had been sent as his
child's guardian, had turned out his most cruel enemy.
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