Book 7.349-358
The snake infects Amata, and she becomes upset at her daughter's upcoming marriage.
Ille inter vestes et levia pectora lapsus
349
volvitur attactu nullo fallitque furentem,
350
vipeream inspirans animam: fit tortile collo
351
aurum ingens coluber, fit longae taenia vittae
352
innectitque comas, et membris lubricus errat.
353
Ac dum prima lues udo sublapsa veneno
354
pertemptat sensus atque ossibus implicat ignem
355
necdum animus toto percepit pectore flammam,
356
mollius et solito matrum de more locuta est,
357
multa super nata lacrimans Phrygiisque hymenaeis:
358