tunc, qua se primum rupta tellure recludit invisus caelo specus atque eructat acerbam Cocyti laxo suspirans ore paludem, inducit iuvenem ferroque eavare refossam ocius urget humum atque, arcanum murmur anhelans, ordine mactari pecudes iubet.
Then, where the earth begins to part and the hollow hateful to heaven opens up, while its wide mouth pants and belches forth acrid air from the marsh of Cocytus,a she led him on and bade him hasten to dig a trench in the earth with his sword and slay the victims in due order; and with quick-drawn breath she muttered mystic words.
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