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| ‘nunc adiuro tibi per ipsum(enim nec est deus praesentior illo), me referre tibi vera tam quam maiora fide vera: | Now I swear to you by (the god) himself (for there is no god nearer than he), that I am telling you things which are as true, as they are beyond belief. |
| puppis stetit aequore haud aliter, quam si siccum navale teneret. | The ship stopped still in the sea just as if a dry dock held it. |
| illi admirantes perstant in verbere remorum –que deducunt vela –que temptant currere gemina ope. | The sailors astonished, persisted in lashing the oars, unfurled the sail and tried to make haste with the aid of both. |
| hederae impediunt remos –que serpent recurvo nexu et distinguunt vela gravidis corymbis. | Ivy vines entangled the oars, crept around them with winding coils and adorned the sail with heavy clusters. |
| ipse circumdatus frontem racemiferis uvis agitat hastam velatam pampineis frondibus; | (Bacchus) himself, his brow encompassed with clustering grapes, brandished a spear wrapped around with ivy leaves. |
| circa quem iacent tigres –que inania simulacra lyncum –que fera corpora pictarum pantherarum.’ | Around him lay tigers, the insubstantial images of lynxes and the savage bodies of multi-coloured panthers.’ |
