iamque ardua ferro signati capita et frugum libamine puro in vulnus cecidere greges; tunc innuba Manto exceptum pateris praelibat sanguen, et omnes ter circum acta pyras sancti de more parentis semineces fibras et adhuc spirantia reddit viscera, nec rapidas cunctatur frondibus atris subiectare faces.
And now the cattle collapse into the strokes, their tall heads marked with steel and pure scattering of meal. Then maiden Manto makes first libation of blood received in bowls and moving thrice around all the pyres after the fashion of her venerable parent offers half-dead fibres and entrails still alive, nor delays to put consuming torches to the black leafage.
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