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253Iamque erat in totas sparsurus fulmina terras:
254sed timuit, ne forte sacer tot ab ignibus aether
255conciperet flammas longusque ardesceret axis:
256esse quoque in fatis reminiscitur, adfore tempus,
257quo mare, quo tellus correptaque regia caeli
258ardeat et mundi moles obsessa laboret.
259Tela reponuntur manibus fabricata Cyclopum:
260poena placet diversa, genus mortale sub undis
261perdere et ex omni nimbos demittere caelo.
262Protinus Aeoliis Aquilonem claudit in antris
263et quaecumque fugant inductas flamina nubes
264emittitque Notum. Madidis Notus evolat alis,
265terribilem picea tectus caligine vultum:
266barba gravis nimbis, canis fluit unda capillis;
267fronte sedent nebulae, rorant pennaeque sinusque.