signa etiam affusa certant dum vellere mole, taeter humo lacera nitentum erupit in ora exultans cruor, et caedis documenta futurae ipsa parens miseris gremio dedit atra cruento; ac super haec divum genitor, terrasque fretumque concutiens tonitru, Cyclopum rapta caminis fulmina Tyrrhenas Thrasymenni torsit in undas; ictusque aetheria per stagna patentia flamma fumavit lacus, atque arserunt fluctibus ignes.
Again, when they tried to wrench the standards from their mounds of soil,b noisome blood spouted forth in their faces from the broken ground, and Mother Earth herself sent forth from her bleeding breast dreadful omens of coming slaughter. Moreover, the Father of the gods, who shakes earth and sea with his thunder, seized thunderbolts from the forges of the Cyclopes,a and hurled them into the Tuscan waters of Lake Trasimene, till the lake, struck by fire from heaven, smoked all over its wide expanse, and fire burned on the water.
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