ceu fulmine celsa aesculus aut, proavis ab origine consita, quercus cum fumat percussa Iovi, sacrosque per aevum aetherio ramos populantur sulphure flammae, donec victa deo late procumbit et omnem collabens operit spatioso stipite prolem.
So a tall oak-tree, planted long ago by our forefathers, when smitten by Jupiters thunderbolt, sends up smoke; and the flames and sulphur of heaven make havoc of the boughs revered for centuries, until it crashes in wide ruin, conquered by the god, and the huge trunk, as it falls, covers all the scions that grow round it.
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