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SILIUS ITALICUS
dux omnia sufficit unus
arma remolitur ;
turbanti terra^ pontumque movere paranti.
lamque deae cunctas sibi belliger induit iras
Hannibal ; hunc audet solum componere fatis.
sanguineo tum laeta viro atque in regna Latini 40
turbine mox saevo venientum haud inscia cladum,
" intulerit Latio, spreta me, Troius," inquit,
" exul Dardaniam et bis numina capta penates
sceptraque fundarit victor Lavinia Teucris,
dum Romana tuae, Ticine, cadavera ripae 45
non capiant, famulusque^ mihi per Celtica rura
sanguine Pergameo Trebia et stipantibus armis
corporibusque virum retro fluat, ac sua largo
stagna reformidet Thrasymennus turbida tabo ;
dum Cannas, tumulum Hesperiae, campumque cruore
Ausonio mersum sublimis lapyga cernam 51
teque vadi dubium coeuntibus, Aufide, ripis
per clipeos galeasque virum caesosque per artus
vix iter Hadriaci rumpentem ad litora ponti."
haec ait ac iuvenem facta ad Mavortia flammat. 55
Ingenio motus avidus fideique sinister
is fuit, exsuperans astu, sed devius aequi.
armato nullus divum pudor ; improba virtus
et pacis despectus honos penitusque medullis
;
^ omnia . . . terra Madvig : agmina . . . terras edd.
2 famulus Postgate : similis edd.
" The legendary king of Laurentum who welcomed
Aeneas on his arrival in Italy. The " realm of Latinus "
stands for either Rome or Italy.
^ Aeneas.
" Troy : and so " Teucrians " below stands for " Romans."
'^ Troy was taken first by Hercules, when he had been
deceived by Laomedon, king of Troy ; and secondly by
the Greeks under Agamemnon.
* Juno enumerates the four main victories gained by
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