hic armata manus, Curetas nomine Grai quos memorant, Phrygias inter si forte catervas ludunt in numerumque exultant sanguine laeti, terrificas capitum quatientes numine cristas, Dictaeos referunt Curetas qui Iovis illum vagitum in Creta quondam occultasse feruntur, cum pueri circum puerum pernice chorea armati in numerum pulsarent aeribus aera, ne Saturnus eum malis mandaret adeptus aeternumque daret Matri sub pectore volnus.
Here an armed group, whom the Greeks name the Curetes, whenever they sport among the Phrygian bands and leap up rhythmically, joyful with blood, shaking their awful crests with the nodding of their heads, recall the Dictaean Curetes, who are said once upon a time to have concealed that infant wailing of Jupiter in Crete; when, boys round a boy in rapid dance, clad in armour, they clashed bronze upon bronze to a measure, that Saturn might not catch him and cast him into his jaws and plant an everlasting wound in the Mothers heart.
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