haud secus, occuluit saxi quo vertice fetus ales fulva Iovis, tacito si ad culmina nisu evasit serpens terretque propinquus hiatu, ilia, hostem rostro atque assuetis fulmina ferre unguibus incessens, nidi circumvolat orbem.
Even so, when the tawny bird of Jupiterd has hidden her young on the top of a cliff, if a serpent climbs noiselessly up the height and opens its dreaded jaws near the nestlings, the mother-bird flies round and round the nest, attacking the foe with her beak and the talons that are wont to carry thunderbolts.
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