at cum Deucalionis aquae fluxere per orbem, et post antiquas Deucalionis aquas, dic mihi, quis potuit lectum servare pudicum, quae dea cum solo vivere sola deo? uxorem quondam magni Minois, ut aiunt, corrupit torvi candida forma bovis; nec minus aerato Dana circumdata muro non potuit magno casta negare Iovi.
But when Deucalions flood swept over the world and after Deucalions legendary flood, tell me, who was able to keep his bed chaste, what goddess could live alone with one god only? Once was the wife of mighty Minos, so they say, seduced by the snow-white form of a glowering bull; and Dana, although shut up within bronze walls, had not the virtue to resist mighty Jove.
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