. . . as they say once

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. . . as they say once
the daughter of Iasios fled young Hippomenes
and said No to marriage, although she was ripe
But she girded herself to achieve the impossible.
Leaving behind her the house of her father,
lighthaired Atalanta,
gone to the high tops of mountains
in flight . . .

(Theognis 1287-93)