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devexo interea propior fit Vesper Olympo

Meanwhile the evening star drew nearer to the sloping Olympus,

iamque sacerdotes primusque Potitius ibant

and now the priests and Potitius in the lead were coming

pellibus in morem cincti

clothed in animal skins according to custom,

flammasque ferebant

they were carrying the flaming torches.

instaurant epulas et mensae grata secundae

They started the feasts again and they brought welcome offerings for the second course

dona ferunt cumulantque oneratis lancibus aras

and they heaped the altars with loaded dishes.

tum Salii ad cantus incesa altaria circum / populeis adsunt evincti tempora ramis,

Then the Salii were present to sing around the altar fires / their brows wreathed with poplar garlands

hic iuvenum chorus, ille senum;

This chorus of young men, that one of old men;

qui carmine laudes / Herculeas et facta ferunt:

who celebrated the praiseworthy acts of Hercules and his deeds in song:

ut prima novercae / monstra manu geminosque premens eliserit angues

how grasping his stepmother’s first monsters in his hand he strangled the twin snakes

ut bello egregias idem disiecerit urbes

how he scattered in the same way the cities famous in war,

Troiamque Oechaliamque, ut duros mille labores

both Troy and Oechalia, how he endured a thousand hard labours

rege sub Eurystheo fatis Iunonis iniquae / pertulerit.

under king Eurystheus because of the fates of unjust Juno.

“tu nubigenas, invicte, bimembres

You, unconquered one, slew cloud-born centaurs,

Hylaeumque Pholumque, manu, tu Cresia mactas prodigia et vastum Nemeae sub rupe leonem.

both Hylaes and Pholus, with your hand, you slew the Cretan monster and the huge lion of Nemea under its rock.

te Stygii tremuere lacus, te ianitor Orci

the pools of Styx trembled at you, as did the guardian of Orcus

ossa super recubans antro semesa cruento;

lying on top of half-eaten bones in his bloody cave;

nec te ullae facies, non terruit ipse Typhoeus,

and not any appearances have frightened you, not Typhoeus himself,

arduus arma tenens; non te rationis egentem / Learnaeus turba capitum circumstetit anguis.

towering bearing weapons; nor were you lacking in reason while the Learnean snake circled around with its crowd of heads.

salve, vera Iovis proles, decus addite divis,

greetings, true son of Jupiter, an added glory to the gods,

et nos et tua dexter adi pede sacra secundo.

approach both us in a fitting way and your holy rites with your favourable presence.

talia carminibus celebrant; super omnia Caci / speluncam adiciunt

They celebrated such deeds with songs; above all they added (to their songs) the cave of Cacus

spirantemque ignibus ipsum.

and he himself breathing fire.

consonat omne nemus strepitu collesque resultant.

The whole grove rang out with sound and the hills re-echoed it.