Apuleius 4.33.1
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The king had once accounted himself happy ; now on hearing the utterance of the sacred prophecy , he returned home reluctant and downcast , to explain this inauspicious reply , and what they had to do , to his wife .
Rex , olim beatus , affatu sanctae vaticinationis accepto pigens tristisque retro domum pergit suaeque coniugi praecepta sortis enodat infaustae .
The King , sometimes happy when he heard the prophesie of Apollo , returned home sad and sorrowful , and declared to his wife the miserable and unhappy fate of his daughter .