his pater inlecebris consumitur, at genitricem clausa necat subolis; nam postquam semineadulto incipiunt calidis corpuscula parva latebris serpere motatumque uterum vibrata ferire, aestuat interno pietatis crimine mater carnificemque gemit damnati conscia sexus progeniem, saepti rumpentem obstacula partus.
With these allurements the sire is destroyed; but the young shut up within her kill their dam. For when the seed develops and the tiny bodies begin to creep about in their warm hiding-place and to shake the womb with their waving and lashing, the mother is tormented by the outrage against filial duty within her, and, conscious of her guilty sex, bemoans the fate that makes her progeny her executioners as they break through the barriers that stop their bringing forth.
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