tum medium claro surgebat marmore templum, et patria Phoebo carius Ortygia: in quo Solis erat supra fastigia currus, et valvae, Libyci nobile dentis opus; altera deiectos Parnasi vertice Gallos, altera maerebat funera Tantalidos.
Then in the middle rose the temple, of dazzling marble, dearer to Phoebus even than his Ortygian home: upon the pediment of this stood the chariot of the Sun, and doors which were a famed piece of African ivory; one door lamented the Gauls cast down from Parnassus peak, the other the deaths of Niobe and her children.
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