Ovid Metamorphoses - lines 179-191

Tres aberant noctes

Three nights were needed

Ut cornua tota coirent

For the horns of the moon to come together completely

efficerentque orbem

And make the orb

Postquam plenissima fulsit

After the moon shone most fully

Et solida terras spectavit imagine luna

And saw the earth with a solid image

Egreditur tectis vestes induta recinctas

She went out of the palace dressed in loosened clothes

Nuda pedem, nudos umeris infusa capillos

Barefoot, after letting her loose hair pour on her shoulders

Fertque vagos mediae

And she carried her wandering steps, unaccompanied

Per muta silentia noctis incomitata gradus

Through the silent stillnesses of midnight

Nomines volucresque ferasque solverat alta quies

Deep sleep had loosed men and birds and wild animals

Nullo cum murmure saepes

The hedgerows [were] with no murmur

Inmotaeque silent frondes, silet umidus aer

And the unmoving leaves were silent, the damp air was silent

Sidera sola micant

Only the stars shone

Ad quae sua bracchia tendens

To the stars holding out her arms

Ter se convertit, ter sumptis flumine crinem inroravit

She turned herself around, she sprinkled herself three times with water

Aquis ternisque ululatibus ora solvit

She loosened her mouth with threefold wailing

Et in dura submisso poplite terra

And with bended knee on the hard ground, she said: