Joy fills that grey land, the buried throng holds

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luxuriant epulisque vacant genialibus umbrae.

grata coronati peragunt convivia Manes;

rumpunt insoliti tenebrosa silentia cantus;

sedantur gemitus. Erebi se sponte relaxat 330

squalor et aeternam patitur rarescere noctem,

urna nec incertas versat Minoia sortes.

verbera nulla sonant nulloque frementia luctu

impia dilatis respirant Tartara poenis: