obvius ut sera cum se sub nocte magistris impingit pecorique pavor, qualesve profundum per chaos occurrunt caecae sine vocibus umbrae: haut secus in mediis noctis nemorisque tenebris inciderant ambo attoniti iuxtaque subibant, abietibus tacitis aut immotis cyparissis adsimiles, rabidus nondum quas miscuit auster.
As it happens during the dark hours of the night, when sudden terror grips both the animals and their keepers, or as when blind and speechless spirits encounter one another in the depths of the underworld abyss: just so did these two individuals meet in the shades of the grove at midnight and cautiously approach one another, filled with amazement, like quiet firs or immobile cypresses, before the wild Southern wind intertwines their branches.