Aphrodite loved Adonis more than she did to heaven, for 1.________
He was a brisk, lovely young hunter. She abandoned her residence at Olympus and took to the woods, where she dressed herself up like a huntress and kept the youth companion all day 2.________ long.
With him she roved through bushy grounds and groves and over hills and dales, cheering hounds and pursuing game of a harmless sort. They had a great time together. However, she warned him many times to chase wild beasts like lions and 3.________ wolves,
but the young man just laughed at the idea. One day, after warning him thus, she left to Olympus in 4.________
her chariot. Quite by chance Adonis’ hounds found a boar, that 5.________ roused Adonis to enthusiasm.
He hit the beast with a dart, and 6.________ the boar, turning on him ,buried its white tusk deep into his tender side and trampled him to death.
When Aphrodite came back to find her lover cold in death, she burst into a passion of tears. Unable to wrest him back from the low world, she sprinkled nectar on Adonis’ blood and 7.________ turned it into anemone, a delicate purple flower.
Aphrodite was, therefore, still inconsolable. In grief and 8.________ despair she flew to Zeus and implored him to restore Adonis to her.
Though she had Zeus’ sympathy, Hades was by no means prepared to comply with her request. After the much dispute a 9.________
compromise was worked out under which Adonis was to spend half the year above ground with Aphrodite, but the rest six 10.________ months in the Elysian Fields.
Therefore, in spring time Adonis came back to the loving embrace of Aphrodite, but when winter came he had to return most reluctantly to Hades.