verum ubi lux nocte e Stygia miseroque sopore reddita, vicini de strage cadaveris hasta erigitur, soloque vigens conamine, late stagnantem caede et facilem discedere terram ense fodit, clausamque aquilae infelicis adorans effigiem, palmis languentibus aequat harenas.
But, when day returned after a dreadful night of distressful slumber, he raised himself on a spear taken from the nearest corpse; then, exerting all his strength for the effort, he dug a hole in the earth with his sword; and the ground, drenched in blood all round, parted easily. Next he bowed before the buried effigy of the luckless eagle, and smoothed the sand over it with strengthless palms.
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