haec, aevi vitaeque tenax felixque senectam mille indefessos viridem duxisse per annos, saeclorum numero Troianis condita tecta aequabat; sed iam longo nox venerat aevo.
This animal was long-lived: it was fortunate enough to prolong a green old age through a thousand years of activity, and numbered as many centuries as the city founded by the Trojan exiles; but now death came to it at last.
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