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Book 4 · lines 481–495
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481Nec mora, Tisiphone madefactam sanguine sumit
482inportuna facem, fluidoque cruore rubentem
483induitur pallam tortoque incingitur angue
484egrediturque domo. Luctus comitatur euntem
485et Pavor et Terror trepidoque Insania vultu.
486Limine constiterat: postes tremuisse feruntur
487Aeolii pallorque fores infecit acernas,
488solque locum fugit. Monstris exterrita coniunx,
489territus est Athamas. Tectoque exire parabant:
490obstitit infelix aditumque obsedit Erinys,
491nexaque vipereis distendens bracchia nodis
492caesariem excussit. Motae sonuere colubrae,
493parsque iacent umeris, pars circum pectora lapsae
494sibila dant saniemque vomunt linguisque coruscant.
495Inde duos mediis abrumpit crinibus angues