Num te leaena montibus Libystinis
Aut Scylla latrans infima inguinum parte
Tam mente dura procreavit ac taetra,
Vt supplicis vocem in novissimo casu
Contemptam haberes a! nimis fero corde? 5
Bare thee some lioness wild in Lybian wold?
Or Scylla barking from low’st inguinal fold?
With so black spirit, of so dure a mould,
E’en voice of suppliant must thou disregard
In latest circumstance ah, heart o’er hard? 5
Did a lioness of the Libyan Hills, or Scylla yelping from her lowmost groin, thee procreate, with mind so hard and horrid, that thou hast contempt upon a suppliant’s voice in calamity’s newest stress? O heart o’ergreatly cruel.
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