credere si dignum famae, flagrantia taurus investigato fonte lavacra dedit, ut solet excussis pugnam praeludere glaebis, stipite cum rigido cornua prona terit: sive deus, faciem mentitus et ora iuvenci, noluit ardentis dona latere soli; qualis Agenorei rapturus gaudia furti per freta virgineum sollicitavit onus.
If the legend deserves credit, it was a bull that first revealed these hot baths by tracking out the source, when, tossing aloft the sods, as is a bulls way to prelude a fight, he grazed his downbent horns upon a hard tree-stump: or else a god, counterfeiting an ox-like shape and visage, would not permit the gift of the warm soil to lurk unseen; like the god who, bent on snatching stolen joys from his theft of Agenors daughter, bore across the seas the terror-stricken maid.
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