cui mater media sese tulit obvia silva, virginis os habitumque gerens et virginis arma, Spartanae, vel qualis equos Threissa fatigat Harpalyce volucremque fuga praevertitur Eurum.
Across his path, in the midst of the forest, came his mother, with a maidens face and mien, and a maidens arms, whether one of Sparta or such a one as Thracian Harpalyce, when she out-tires horses and outstrips the winged East Wind in flight.