tum steriles luci possessaque manibus arva et ferrugineum nemus astupet, ipsaque Tellus miratur patuisse retro, nec livida tabes invidiae functis quamquam et iam lumine cassis defuit.
Then the barren groves and ghost-haunted fields and forest of sombre hue stand amazed, and Earth herself marvels to have opened rearwards; nor did even the dead and lightless lack the livid corruption of envy.
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