Threiciam volucrem fertur Iunonius ales communi sociam conteruisse cibo' namque inter varias fuerat discordia formas, magnaque de facili iurgia lite trahunt' quod sibi multimodo fulgerent membra decore, caeruleam facerent livida terga gruem; et simul erectae circumdans tegmina caudae sparserat arcatum sursus in astra iubar.
The story goes that Junos bird disparaged the Thracian fowl, when she shared their joint feeding-ground. For a quarrel had arisen involving their different kinds of beauty and they were protracting a long argument on a case easy to settle. The peacock contended that the parts of his body gleamed in manifold loveliness, but that a dingy back gave the crane a dun colour, and at the word he arrayed about him the canopy of his uplifted tail and shot an arc of light upwards to the sky.
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