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Talia flammato secum dea corde volutans nimborum in patriam, loca feta

furentibus austis, Aeoliam venit hic vasto rex Aeolus antro luctantes ventos

tempestatesque sonoras imperio premit ac vinclis et carcere frenat. Illi

indignantes magno cum murmure montis circum claustra fremunt; celsa

sedet Aeolus arce sceptra tenens, mollitque animos et temperat iras. Ni

feciat, maria ac terras caleumque profundum quippe ferant rapidi secum

verrantque per auras, sed pater omnipotens speluncis abdidit atris, hoc

metuens, molemque et montes insuper altos imposuit, regemque dedit, qui

foedere certo et premere et laxas sciret dare iusus habemas. Ad quem tum

Iuno supplex his vocibus usa est:

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Turning over such with herself, her heart ablaze, she came to Aeolia, the homeland of the winds, a place full of raging South winds,. Here King Aelous controls with his power the struggle winds and roaring storms and reins them in with chains and imprisonment. They angry, with a great rumble of the mountains, roar around the bars; Aelous sits in his high citadel, holding the sceptre, and soothes their spirits and controls their anger. If he were not to do this, they would indeed swiftly carry with themselves the seas and the lands and the high heavens and sweep them through the breezes, but the omnipotent father hid them in a black cave, fearing this, and placed a mass and high mountains on top of them and gave them a king, who, by a fixed contract, when ordered, knew how to control them and give them free rein. Then did Juno speak to him, using these words.

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