mirum unde, sed olim hic honor alitibus, superae seu conditor aulae sic dedit effusum chaos in nova semina texens, seu quia mutatae nostraque ab origine versis corporibus subiere notos, sed purior axis amotumque nefas et rarum insistere terris vera docent: tibi, summe sator terraeque deumque, scire licet: nos Argolicae primordia pugnae venturumque sinas caelo praenosse laborem.
Marvellous the cause, but from long ago birds have this honour: whether the founder of the heavenly palace so disposed when he wove sprawling chaos into new seeds, or whether they went upon the winds changed with bodies transformed from what once were ours, but the purer sky with evil removed and rare landing upon earth teaches them truth'for you, supreme begetter of earth and gods, tis lawful to know. Permit us to learn beforehand by the sky the beginnings of the Argive strife and the toil to come.
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