Cupid & Psyche — Chapter 27 (cont.)

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1nam 6per 7saxa 8cautium 2membris 3iactatis 4atque 5dissipatis 9et 12proinde 14ut 15merebatur 13laceratis 11visceribus 10suis, 20alitibus 22bestiis 21-que 18obvium 17ferens 19pabulum 16interiit.

1nec 4vindictae 3sequentis 2poena 5tardavit.

1nam 2Psyche 3rursus 4errabundo 5gradu 6pervenit 7ad 9civitatem 8aliam, 10in 11qua 15pari 16modo 13soror 14morabatur 12alia.

1nec setius 3et 2ipsa 4fallacie 5germanitatis 6inducta 7et 9in 12sororis 10sceleratas 11nuptias 8aemula, 13festinavit 14ad 15scopulum 18in 16-que 19simile 20mortis 21exitium 17cecidit.

For when her limbs had been flung and scattered, over the rocks of the crags, and her innards accordingly torn apart as she deserved, she perished, providing ready food for birds and beasts.

Nor was the punishment of the following revenge slow.

For Psyche again with wandering step comes to another town, in which the other sister was living in a similar way.

Just the same, she herself, too by the deceit of sisterhood, taken in, and rivalling vying for wicked marriage, her sister’s she hurried to the crag, and fell into a like deadly ruin.

Content — what is happening

For when her limbs had been flung and scattered over the rocks of the crags, and her innards torn apart — just as she deserved — she perished, a ready meal for the birds and beasts.
Nor was the punishment of the vengeance that followed slow in coming.
For Psyche, wandering on, came to a second city where the other sister was living in just the same way.
She too was taken in by the same lie of sisterly love and, scheming for her sister’s wicked marriage, hurried to the crag — and fell to a death exactly like the first.