aspicit et vivo scelerantem sanguine fauces (nec comites auferre valent): stetit aspera Gorgon crinibus emissis rectique ante ora cerastae velavere deam; fugit aversata iacentem, nec prius astra subit quam mystica lampas et insons Elisos multa purgavit lumina lympha.
She looks at him, sees him wet with the issue of the broken brain and polluting his jaws with living blood'nor can his comrades wrest it away. The Gorgon stood rough with hair  outflung and the asps upreared before her face concealed the goddess. Turning from the prostrate man, she flees, nor ascends to the stars until the mystic torch and guiltless Elisos  had purged her eyes with plenteous water.
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