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And I come before you, Aidoneus and Persephone, brought here by Love.
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Beside the single tree in his domain Aidoneus stayed the chariot.
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And then, suddenly, she remembered the pomegranate that Aidoneus had asked her to divide.
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A fearful hound guards the hall of Aidoneus: Cerberus he is called; he has three heads.
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There, too, stands the hall of the lord of the Underworld, Aidoneus, the brother of Zeus.
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But slowly she came when Aidoneus called her.
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And Aidoneus, hearing the command of Zeus that might not be denied, bowed his dark, majestic head.
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Again you will have to go back and dwell in the dark places under the earth and sit upon Aidoneus's throne.
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Then did Aidoneus prevail upon her to divide the fruit, and, having divided it, Persephone ate seven of the pomegranate seeds.
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His name was Pluto, or Aidoneus, and his country was called the Lower World, or the Land of Shadows, or Hades.
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And as he played the rulers of the dead came forth, Aidoneus and Persephone, and listened to the words of the living man.
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Once they had been nymphs and had tended Persephone before she was carried off by Aidoneus to be his queen in the Underworld.
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Persephone springing up with great joy from the couch of Aidoneus, to return to her mother, is the sudden outburst of the year.
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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.
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And Cronos married to Rhea had for children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Aidoneus, and Poseidon, and these all belonged to the company of the deathless gods.
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Proserpine, according to the Homeride (for the story is not without variations), when gathering flowers with the Ocean-Nymphs, is carried off by Aidoneus, or Pluto.