vis et Martigenae thalamos spectare Quirini? Hersiliam cerne; hirsutos cum sperneret olim gens vicina procos, pastori rapta marito intravitque casae culmique e stramine fultum pressit laeta torum et soceros revocavit ab armis.
Would you see also the consort of Quirinus, the son of Mars? Yonder is Hersilia.a When the neighbour nationb despised such unkempt suitors in days gone by, she was carried off by a shepherd-bridegroom and entered his hut, and lay well pleased upon his bed of straw, and forced her kinsmen to throw down their arms.
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