Dumque ea confuso percenset murmure vulgus, ecce, per obliquum caeli squalentibus auro effulgens maculis, ferri inter nubila visus anguis et ardenti radiare per ara sulco, quaque ad caeliferi tendit plaga litus Atlantis, perlabi resonante polo, bis terque coruscum addidit augurio fulmen pater, et vaga late per subitum moto strepuere tonitrua mundo.
But while the people were considering these things, speaking low in their uncertainty, lo, a serpent, glittering with rough spots of gold, was seen to glide athwart the sky between the clouds, tracing a furrow of fire in the heavens, and it moved on towards the quarter where the sky ends in the shore of Atlas,c the supporter of the firmament. Nor was the sky silent; for Jupiter twice and three times confirmed the portent with his thunder, and his far-flung bolts crashed suddenly, and the heavens were shaken.
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