proxima sors Cycni, quem caelo Iuppiter ipse imposuit, formae pretium, qua cepit amantem, cum deus in niveum descendit versus olorem tergaque fidenti subiecit plumea Ledae.
Hard by is the place allotted to the Swan: Jupiter himself placed it in the sky as a reward for the shape with which he snared the admiring Leda, when, a god changed into a snow-white swan, he came down and offered his feathered form to the unsuspecting woman.
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