omnia secum versanti subito vix haec sententia sedit: telum immane manu valida quod forte gerebat bellator, solidum nodis et robore cocto, huic natam libro et silvestri subere clausam implicat atque habilem mediae circumligat hastae; quam dextra ingenti librans ita ad aethera fatur: alma, tibi hanc, nemorum cultrix, Latonia virgo, ipse pater famulam voveo; tua prima per auras tela tenens supplex hostem fugit.
Quickly as he pondered all courses in his mind, he settled on this reluctant resolve: the giant spear, which the warrior chanced to be carrying in his stalwart hand, hard-knotted and of seasoned oak'to this he fastens his daughter, wrapped in bark of forest cork, and binds her closely round the centre of the shaft. Then, poising it in his mighty right hand, he cries thus to the heavens: Gracious lady, dweller in the woods, virgin daughter of Latona, to your service I, her father, vow this child; yours is this first weapon that she clasps as a suppliant, speeding through the air in flight from her foe.
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