ergo ubi gustatus cruor, admonuitque Sibylla et dedit alternos ambobus noscere vultus, sic iuvenis prior: o magni mihi numinis instar, cara parens, quam, te ut nobis vidisse liceret, optassem Stygias vel leto intrare tenebras! quae sors nostra fuit, cui te, cum prima subiret, eripuit sine honore dies et funere carpsit! excipit his mater: nullos, o nate, labores mors habuit nostra; aetherii dum pondere partus exsolvor, miti dextra Cyllenia proles imperio Iovis Elysias deduxit ad oras attribuitque pares sedes, ubi magna moratur Alcidae genetrix, ubi sacro munere Leda.
So, when the ghost had tasted of the blood and the Sibyl had informed her and suffered the pair to recognize one another, Scipio thus began: Dear mother, as sacred to me as a mighty god, how gladly would I even have died and so entered the Stygian darkness, for a sight of you! What a lot was mine! The first day of my life was a day of disaster that snatched you from me and laid you in the grave. His mother replied: My son, no suffering attended my deathb: when I was delivered of the divine burden I carried, the god born on Cyllenec conducted me with gentle hand by the command of Jupiter and gave me a place of equal honour in Elysium, where Leda and the great mother of Alcides are permitted by the god to dwell.
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