hoc Picus quondam, nomen memorabile ab alto Saturno, statuit genitor, quem carmine Circe exutum formae volitare per aethera iussit et sparsit croceum plumis fugientis honorem.
Picus, the famous son of ancient Saturn, was the father and founder of Asculum long ago'Picus whom Circe by her spells deprived of human shape, and sentenced to fly about in the sky; and she speckled his feathers with bright saffron colour as he fled from her.
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