tenet haec operum caelata figuras: aureus anguicomam praesecto Gorgona collo ales habet, iam iamque vagas (ita visus) in auras exsilit; illa graves oculos languentiaque ora paene movet vivoque etiam pallescit in auro.
Its chased surface held worked figures: the golden flyer  carries the snake-tressed Gorgons severed head, and even now, so seems it, leaps into the wandering airs; almost she moves her heavy eyes and drooping countenance and pales even in the living gold.
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