This done, he hastens to execute the Sibyl’s bidding.
A deep cave there was, yawning wide with giant throat,
rough and shingly, shadowed by the black pool and the 15
gloom of the forest—a cave, over whose mouth no winged
thing could fly unharmed, so poisonous the breath that
exhaling from its pitchy jaws steamed up to the sky—whence
Greece has given the spot the name Aornos.[213]
Here first the priestess places in sacrificial station four 20
black-skinned bullocks, and empties wine over their
brows, and plucking from between their horns the hairs of