Iamdudum hac Minyas vates ambage ducemque terrificat; sed enim contra Phoebeius Idmon, non pallore virens, non ullo horrore comarum terribilis, plenus fatis Phoeboque quieto, (cui genitor tribuit monitu praenoscere divum omina, seu flammas seu lubrica comminus exta seu plenum certis interroget aethera pinnis) sic sociis Mopsoque canit: quantum augur Apollo flammaque prima docet, praeduri plena laboris cerno equidem, patiens sed quae ratis omnia vincet.
Long enough hath the seer been daunting the Minyae and their leader with this dark utterance. But then in answer Idmon, Phoebus son, not pale with sickly fear, nor awful to look upon with upstanding hair, but instinct with destiny and the calm influence of Apollo (to him the Father gave by his ordinance the foreknowledge of omens divine, whether he inquired of flames or close-viewed entrails smooth, or of the air thick with fowls that cannot lie), prophesied thus to his comrades and to Mopsus: As surely as the seer Apollo and that first tongue of flame teach me, so do I behold all our course full of toil and grievous to be borne; yet shall the ship with long suffering overcome all things.
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