innuptam limite adibant Pallada, Monychiis cui non Argiva per urbes posthabita est Larisa iugis; hic more parentum Iasides, thalamis ubi casta adolesceret aetas, virgineas libare comas primosque solebant excusare toros.
They were approaching virgin Pallas by the road,  she who values Argive Larisa among cities no less than Monychian heights. Here, when their chaste years grow ripe for wedlock, by ancestral usage Iasus daughters were wont to dedicate their maiden locks and make excuse for their first marriage bed.
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