contra importuna crepido, Oedipodioniae domus alitis; hic fera quondam pallentes erecta genas suffusaque tabo lumina, concretis infando sanguine plumis reliquias amplexa virum semesaque nudis pectoribus stetit ossa premens visuque trementi collustrat campos, si quis concurrere dictis hospes inexplicitis aut comminus ire viator audeat et dirae commercia iungere linguae; nec mora, quin acuens exsertos protinus ungues liventesque manus strictosque in vulnera dentes terribili applausu circum hospita surgeret ora; et latuere doli, donec de rupe cruenta (heu simili deprensa viro!) cessantibus alis tristis inexpletam scopulis affligeret alvum.
Opposite is a grim ledge, the home of Oedipus fowl.  Here once the savage creature stood, lifting up her pallid cheeks and eyes suffused with putrefaction, her feathers clotted with hideous gore, covering human remains, pressing half-eaten bones with her naked breast, and with wavering stare surveyed the plain, watching for a stranger who might dare to meet her in riddling words, a traveller to approach and have commerce with her evil tongue.  And speedily sharpening her protended nails, with livid hands and teeth bared to wound, with frightful flapping she would rise around the strangers face. Her wiles stayed hidden until a man like (alas!) to herself  caught her; and from her bloody cliff, cowed with flagging wings, she dashed her insatiate belly upon the rocks.
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