quid,quod et ipsae dant tibi, Roma, deos inferni gurgitis umbrae? Eumenidum domina Stygio caput exerit antro rapta ad tartarei thalamum Proserpina regis, et, si quando suos dignatur adire Quirites, placatur vaccae sterilis cervice resecta,.
But even the shades in the gulf below give thee gods, O Rome. The mistress of the Furies, Proserpina, she who was carried off to be the bride of the king of hell, lifts her head from the Stygian cavern, and when she deigns to visit her Romans is propitiated by cutting the throat of a barren heifer.
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