monstrum exitiabile et ira telluris genitum, cui par vix viderit aetas ulla virum, serpens centum porrectus in ulnas letalem ripam et lucos habitabat Avernos.
A deadly monster lived there, spawned by Earth in her wrath, whose like scarce any generation of men can see again; a serpent, a hundred ells in length, haunted that fatal bank and the Averniana grove.
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