postquam caerulei sinuosa volumina monstri, terrigenam Pythona, deus, septem orbibus atris amplexum Delphos squamisque annosa terentem robora, Castaliis dum fontibus ore trisulco fusus hiat nigro sitiens alimenta veneno, perculit, absumptis numerosa in vulnera telis, Cirrhaeique dedit centum per iugera campi.
Pay heed, I shall unfold. The god had struck down earthborn Python, dark monster of the winding coils, embracing Delphi with his seven black circlets and grinding ancient oaks with his scales, even as he sprawled by the Castalian spring and opened his triple-cleft mouth in thirst of nourishment for his black venom. Many the wounds on which the god spent his darts, till finally he left the creature outspread over a hundred acres of Cirrhas plain.
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