tunc his sacrificum dictis affata parentem: primus sanguineo summittit inertia Cadmus ora lacu, iuxtaque virum Cythereia proles insequitur, geminusque bibit de vertice serpens.
Then in these words she addressed her priestly parent: First Cadmus lowers his feeble mouth into the bloody pool and Cythereas daughter follows next her husband. The two serpents  drink from the head top.
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