“He spoke, and unaware that fate was driving him on the path of tardy expiation, gives his arms for this last time to his attendants to bind with harness.”

Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Lines 252–254

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Dixit et urgentis post saeva piacula fati nescius extremum hoc armis innectere palmas dat famulis.

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