Dixit, et abscedens (etenim iam pallida turbant sidera lucis equi) ramos ac vellera fronti deripuit, confessus avum, dirique nepotis incubuit stratis; iugulum mox caede patentem nudat et undanti perfundit vulnere somnum.
He spoke and departing (for already the steeds of light are putting the paling stars to rout) tore the branches and fillets from his head, revealing himself'the grandfather. Then bending over his fell grandsons couch, he bares the gaping wound of his throat and drenches the sleeper with a stream of gore.
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