nec cunctata diu vates: mactare repostis mos umbris, inquit, consueta piacula nigras sub lucem pecudes reclusaeque abdere terrae manantem iugulis spirantum caede cruorem.
The priestess did not tarry long: It is customary, she said, to slay black-fleeced sheep before the dawn, as offerings to the dead in their graves, and then to bury in an open trench the blood that flows from the throats of the still living victims.
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