huc genitorem altae per opaca silentia noctis praecipitem silvis rapit et sic maesta profatur: quam, genitor, patriam, quantas modo linquis inanes pube domos! pro dira lues, pro noctis acerbae exitium! talin possum te credere puppi, care parens? possum tantis retinere periclis? solvimus heu serum furti scelus! adnue votis, diva, soporiferas quae nunc trahis aequore bigas.
Hither with all speed through the darkness and silence of midnight she haled her father from the woods, and thus in sorrow spake: What a land, my father, what homes lately so prosperous, dost thou leave, spoiled of their manhood! Oh horrible pollution! Oh the ruin wrought in one bitter night! How can I trust thee to so frail a ship, father dear? How can I keep thee here amid these great dangers? Alas, I am paying at length for my crime of cunning! Hear my prayer, goddess, thou who now drivest thy slumbrous car across the ocean.
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