sunt omina vera: mirabar cur templa mihi tremuisse Dianae nuper et inferior vultu dea visa, sacrisque exuviae cecidere tholis; hoc segnior arcus difficilesque manus et nullo in vulnere certae.
Omens tell true. I marvelled why of late Dianas temple seemed to me to tremble and the goddess herself had a look of the underworld  and why spoils fell from her sacred dome. Twas this that slackened my bow and made my hands clumsy, unsure in every stroke.
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