tum nigra triformi hostia mactatur divae, raptimque recludit spirantes artus poscens responsa sacerdos ac fugientem animam properatis consulit extis.
Then a black victim was sacrificed to the goddess of triple shapeb; and the priestess, seeking an oracle, quickly opened the still breathing body and questioned the spirit, as it fled from the inward parts that she had laid bare in haste.
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