praecipitet Scythica iuvenis pietate vietum votivo de ponte patrem (sic mos fuit olim), caedibus infantum fument Saturnia sacra flebilibusque truces resonent vagitibus arae.
Let the young man, with a filial piety worthy of Scythia, fling his wrinkled old father as an offering from the bridge, for such was once the custom. Let the rites of Saturn reek with the slaughter of infants and the cruel altars resound with their weeping and wailing.
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