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146 VERGILI .A.ENEIS VII.<br />
Dardaniam Siculo prospexit ab usque Pachyno.<br />
MoUri jam tecta vi<strong>de</strong>t, jam fi<strong>de</strong>re terrae, 290<br />
Deseruisse rates. Stetit acri fixa dolore.<br />
Tum quassans caput, haec effundit pectore dicta:<br />
" Heu stirpem invisam, et fatis contraria nostris<br />
Fata Phrygum I num Sigeis occumbere campis,<br />
Num capti potuere capi? num incensa cremavit 295<br />
Troja viros? Medias acies mediosque per ignes<br />
Invenere viam. At, credo, mea numina tan<strong>de</strong>m<br />
Fessa jacent, odiis aut exsaturata quievi-<br />
Quin etiam patria excussos infesta per undas<br />
Ausa sequi, et profugis toto me opponere ponto I 300<br />
Absumptae in '['eucros vires caelique marisque.<br />
Quid Syrtes aut Scylla mihi, quid vasta Charybdis<br />
Profuit? Optato conduntm Thybridis alveo,<br />
Securi pelagi atque mei. Mars per<strong>de</strong>re gentem<br />
Immanem Lapithum valuit; concessit in iras 305<br />
Ipse <strong>de</strong>um antiquam genitor Calydona Dianae:<br />
Quod scelus aut Lapithis tantum, aut Calydone merente?<br />
Ast ego, magna J ovis conjunx, nil linquere inausum<br />
Quae potui infelix, quae 111emet in omnia verti,<br />
Vincor ab Aenea! Quod si mea numina non sunt 310<br />
Magna satis, dubitem haud equi<strong>de</strong>m implorare quod<br />
usquam est:<br />
Flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo.<br />
Non dabitur regnis, esto, prohibere Latinis,<br />
Atque immota manet fatis Lavinia conjunx:<br />
At tl'ahere, atque moras tan tis licet ad<strong>de</strong>re rebus, 315<br />
At licet amborum populos exscin<strong>de</strong>re regum.<br />
Hac gener atque socer coeant merce<strong>de</strong> suorum.<br />
Sanguine Trojano et Rutulo dotabere, virgo,<br />
Et Bellona manet te pronuba. Nee face tantum<br />
Cisseis praegnans ignes enixa jugales ; 320<br />
Quin i<strong>de</strong>m Veneri pal·tus suus et Paris alter,<br />
Funestaeque iterum rccidiva in Pergama taedae."<br />
Haec ubi dicta <strong>de</strong>dit, telTas borrenda petivit.<br />
Luctificam Allecto dirarum ab se<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> arum<br />
Infernisque ciet tenebris, cui tristia bella 325