postquam nuda minax egit per viscera ferrum et vacuam solitis fetibus esse videt, ingemuit tantae deceptus crimine fraudis; nam poenam meritis rettulit inde suis.
When he plunged his dread knife into its open breast, and found the bird empty of the usual eggs, he groaned aloud, tricked by the iniquity of so gross a fraud; for thereupon he ascribed the punishment to his own deserts.
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