Apuleius: Metamorphoses 6.1.
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- Translated by Left: Adlington (1566) Right: Graves (1951)
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After that she climbed to the top of the mountaine , she came to the temple , and went in , wheras behold she espied sheffes of corn lying on a heap , blades withered with garlands , and reeds of barly , moreover she saw hooks , sithes , sickles , and other instruments , to reape , but every thing lay out of order , and as it were cast in by the hands of laborers .
Iamque naviter emensis celsioribus iugis pulvinaribus sese proximam intulit : videt spicas frumentarias in acervero et alias flexiles in corona et spicas hordei videt ; erant et falces et operae messoriae mundus omnis sed cuncta passim iacentia et incuria confusa et , ut solet aestu , laborantium manibus proiecta .
. . . after climbing ridge after ridge . But when she arrived at the sacred couch she found it heaped with votive gifts of wheat-sheaves , wheat-chaplets and ears of barley , also sickles and other harvest implements ; but all were scattered about untidily , as though flung down at the close of a hot summer day by careless reapers .