qua potata salutari quiete sopiti diutina vi morbi repente sunt liberati, patrique indicaverunt vidisse se in somnis a nescio quo deorum spongea corpora sua pertergeri et praecipi ut ad Ditis patris et Proserpinae aram, a qua potio ipsis fuerat allata, furvae hostiae immolarentur lectisterniaque ac ludi nocturni fierent.
After doing so, they fell into a healing sleep and were suddenly free from the long-protracted violence of the disease. They told their father that in their sleep they saw their bodies sponged all over by one or other of the gods and directions given that dusky victims should be sacrificed at the altar of Dis Pater and Proserpine, whence the drink had been brought to them, and that spreading of couches and nocturnal games be held.
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