forsitan et victo prior isset Arione Cycnus, sed vetat aequoreus vinci pater: hinc vice iusta gloria mansit equo, cessit victoria vati.
Perhaps Cycnus would have gone ahead and Arion lost, but his father the sea god will not let him lose. So in fair division the horse kept his glory, victory went to the seer.
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