tunc limine divae astitit et tali nequiquam voce precatur: virgo potens nemorum, cuius non mollia signa militiamque trucem sexum indignata frequento more nihil Graio (nec te gens aspera ritu Colchis Amazoniaeve magis coluere catervae): si mihi non umquam thiasi ludusve protervae noctis et, inviso quamvis temerata cubili, non tamen aut teretes thyrsos aut mollia gessi pensa, sed in tetricis et post conubia lustris, sic quoque venatrix animumque innupta remansi, nec mihi secretis culpam occultare sub antris cura, sed ostendi prolem posuique trementem ante tuos confessa pedes
Then standing at the goddess threshold, she prays in vain as thus: Virgin lady of the forests, whose ungentle standards and fierce campaigning I attend in no Grecian fashion, indignant at my sex (nor have the rough breed of Colchis or the troops of the Amazons given you more worship), if dances and the sport of a wanton night have never been for me and though violated by a hated bed I never bore smooth wands or soft wool but even after marriage, even so, remained a huntress in the stern wild and at heart a virgin; nor was it my care to hide my fault in some secret grot, but I showed my child and placed him trembling at your feet, confessing;
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