haec ubi dicta, nigrantes terra pecudes obscuraque mergit armenta, ac vivis cumulos undantis harenae aggerat et vati mortis simulacra rependit.
That spoken, he buries in the earth black sheep and dusky cattle, heaping piles of undulating sand on their living bodies and pays the seer his meed of simulated death.
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