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<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong><br />

170 VERGILI AENEIS VIII.<br />

Saecula: sic placida populos in pace regebat, 325<br />

Deterior donee paul:1tim ae <strong>de</strong>eolor aetas<br />

Et belli rabies et amot' success it habendi.<br />

Tum manus Ausonia et gentes venere Sieanae,<br />

Saepius et nomen posuit Satumia tellus ;<br />

Tum reges, asperque immani corpore Thybris, 330<br />

A quo post Itali fiuvium cognomine 1'bybrim<br />

Diximus; amisit verum vetus Albula Domen.<br />

Me pulsum patria pelagique extrema sequentem<br />

Fortuna omnipotens ct ineluctabile fatum<br />

His posuere locis, matrisque egere tremenda 335<br />

Oarmentis Nymphae monita et <strong>de</strong>us auctor Apollo."<br />

Vix ea dicta; <strong>de</strong>hinc progressus, mODstrat et aram,<br />

Et Oarmentalem Romani nomine pOltam<br />

Quam mcmorant, Nymphae pri cum Oarmentishonorem,<br />

Vatis fatidicae, cecinit quae prima futuros 340<br />

Aeneadas magnos et nobile Pallauteum.<br />

Hinc lucum ingentem, quem Romulus acer Asylum<br />

Retulit, et gelida monstrat sub rupe Lupereal,<br />

Parrhasio dictulll Panos <strong>de</strong> more Lycaei ;<br />

Nec non et sacri monstrat Demus Argileti, 345<br />

Testaturque locum, et letulU doeot bospitis Argi.<br />

Hine ad Tarpeiam se<strong>de</strong>m et Oapitolia ducit,<br />

Aurea nunc, olim silvestribus horrida dumis.<br />

Jam tum religio pavidos terrebat agrestes<br />

Dira loci j jam tum silvam saxumque tremebant. 350<br />

" Hoc nemus, hunc," inquit, "frondoso vertiee coUem,<br />

(Quis <strong>de</strong>us incertum est) habitat <strong>de</strong>us j Arca<strong>de</strong>s ipsum<br />

Oredunt se vidisse J ovem, quum saepe nigrantem<br />

Aegida concuteret <strong>de</strong>xtra, nimbosque cieret.<br />

Haec duo praeterea disjectis oppida muris, 355<br />

Reliquias veterumque vi<strong>de</strong>s monumenta virorum :<br />

Hanc Janus pater, hane Saturnus condidit arcem;<br />

J aniculum huic, illi fuerat Saturnia nomen."<br />

'l'alibus inter se dictis ad tecta subibant<br />

Pauperis Evandri, passimque armenta vi<strong>de</strong>bant 360<br />

Romanoquc Foro et lautis mugire Oarinis.<br />

Ut ventum ad se<strong>de</strong>s: "Haec" inquit " limina victor<br />

Alci<strong>de</strong>s &ubiit, haec illum regia cepit;

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