qualem siquis aquis et fertilis ubere terrae educat ac ventis oleam felicibus implet, nec labor adsiduus nec spes sua fallit alentem, iamque videt primam tenero de vertice frondem; cum subito immissis praeceps aquilonia nimbis venit hiemps nigraque evulsam tendit harena: haud secus ante urbem Myraces atque ipsius ante virginis ora cadit; sed non magis illa movetur unius aegra metu, quam te, Meleagre, furentem, quam Talaum videt aut pugnas miratur Acasti; at satis hos ipsae gentes campique videbant tempestate pari versis incumbere turmis.
Even as when one nurtures an olive with river streams and all the richness of fertile soil and stints it not of breezes, nor doth his constant toil nor expectation play the nurturer false, and now doth he behold its summit put forth its earliest leaf, when on a sudden a hurricane swoops down from the rushing storm-clouds of the North, and roots it up and stretches it on the dark soil: not otherwise doth Myraces fall before the city and the maidens very eyes; yet, anxious for one alone, no more doth she feel than when she beholds Talaus or thy furious prowess, Meleager, or admires the righting of Acastus; yet had their own peoples and the battle-fields their fill of seeing these warriors in equal hurricane press hard the routed squadrons.
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