et, ni successu nimio laetoque pavore proditus elapso foret inter verba flagello, forsan sacrasset Zephyro, quas voverat, aras.
And indeed, had he not, even while he spoke, been beguiled, by too great success and by his fearful joy, into dropping his whip, Durius would perhaps have consecrated to the West-wind the altars he had vowed.
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