erant certe media quae noctis in umbra divam alios ignes maioraque tela gerentem Tartareas inter thalamis volitasse Sorores vulgarent, utque implicitis arcana domorum anguibus et saeva formidine nupta replesset limina nec fidi populum miserata mariti.
Of a certainty there were some women who put it about how in the mid darkness of night the goddess had flitted through bedchambers bearing other fires and larger weapons in company with the Tartarean Sisters, and how she had filled secret places in our homes with twined snakes and our nuptial thresholds with fierce terror, pitying not her husbands people, faithful though he be.
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