Dicitur Idalios Erycis de vertice lucos dum petit et molles agitat Venus aurea cycnos Pergameas intrasse domos, ubi maximus aegris auxiliator adest et festinantia sistens Fata salutifero mitis deus incubat angui.
Tis said that as golden Venus was driving her soft swans on her way from Eryx height to the Idalian groves, she entered the Pergamene dwelling where the gentle god is present to aid the sick, their greatest helper, staying the hastening Fates and brooding over his health-giving serpent.
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