ac veluti summo venator densa Picano cum lustra exagitat spissisque cubilibus atram immittit passim dumosa per invia pestem' dum tacitas vires et flammam colligit ignis, nigranti piceus sensim caligine vertex volvitur et pingui contorquet nubila fumo; mox subita in toto lucent incendia monte' fit sonitus, fugere ferae, fugere volucres, atque ima longe trepidant in valle iuvencae.
So the hunter on the top of Mount Picanusc harries the haunts of wild beasts, and all through the untrodden thickets spreads fell destruction in their crowded lairs; while the fire is silently gathering strength and flame, the tops of the pinetrees are gradually wrapt in black darkness, and the thick smoke goes eddying to the sky; but soon flames blaze out suddenly over the whole mountain: a crackling is heard, the wild beasts flee, the birds flee, and the heifers are startled in the lowland valleys far away.
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