illum ubi terrifici superesse in tempore sacri conspexit, statuit leto supremaque fatur ipse manu tangens damnati cornua tauri: vos, quibus imperium Iovis et non segne peractum lucis iter, mihi consiliis, mihi cognita bellis nomina magnorum fama sacrata nepotum; tuque, excite parens umbris, ut nostra videres funera et oblitos superum paterere dolores, da placidae mihi sedis iter meque hostia vestris conciliet praemissa locis.
When Aeson saw that the bull still remained at the hour of the awful rites unslain, he dooms him to death, and with one hand upon the horns of the fated victim speaks for the last time: O ye who received from Jupiter your reign and the light of life not idly spent, names known to me in councils and in wars, names hallowed by the good report of your grandchildren; and thou, my father, summoned forth from the shades to view my death and to endure again the forgotten sorrows of men on earth, O grant me entry to the abode of quiet, and may the victim that I send before me win favour for me in your dwelling.
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