tum, tristi nemore atque umbris nigrantibus horrens et formidatus volucri, letale vomebat suffuso virus caelo Stygiaque per urbes religione sacer saevum retinebat honorem.
Once dreaded by birds and awful in the gloomy shade of a dark forest, it sent up a poisonous exhalation to the lowering sky; the infernal deities were worshipped there with savage rites still kept up by the cities.
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