...he gentler touch; for I would sing of boys, the favorites of Gods, and even of maids who had to pay the penalty of wrong.” The king of all the Gods once burned with love for Ganymede of Phrygia . He found a shape more pleasing even than his own. Jove would not take the form of any bird, except the eagle's, able to sustain the weight of his own thunderbolts. Without delay, Jove on fictit...