felix, si Delia numquam furta nec occultum Phoebo sociasset amorem! namque ut passa deum Nemeaei ad fluminis undam, bis quinos plena cum fronte resumeret orbes Cynthia, sidereum Latonae feta nepotem edidit; ac poenae metuens (neque enim ille coactis donasset thalamis veniam pater) avia rura eligit ac natum saepta inter ovilia furtim montivago pecoris custodi mandat alendum.
Happy had she been if she had never shared Delian dalliance and Phoebus secret love. For by the water of Nemeas stream  she suffered the god, and when Cynthia resumed her full countenance for the tenth time, gave birth to a child, Latonas starlike grandson. Fearing chastisement (for no mercy would that father have shown in forgiveness of forced union), she chooses a pathless tract and amid the sheepfolds secretly consigns her son to a hillfaring keeper of the flock for him to rear.
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