dum quaero patrem, si Sphingos iniquae callidus ambages te praemonstrante resolvi, si dulces furias et lamentabile matris conubium gavisus ini noctemque nefandam saepe tuli natosque tibi, scis ipsa, paravi, mox avidus poenae digitis cedentibus ultro incubui miseraque oculos in matre reliqui: exaudi, si digna precor quaeque ipsa furenti subiceres.
if under your tutelage I had cunning to solve the riddle of the cruel Sphinx; if I joyfully entered sweet madness and my mothers lamentable wedlock, enduring many a night of evil and making children for you, as well you know; if thereafter, avid for punishment, I pressed down upon yielding fingers  and left my eyes upon my hapless mother:  hear oh hear, if my prayer be worthy and such as you yourself might whisper to my frenzy.
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