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<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong><br />
172 VERGILI AENEIS VIII.<br />
Quod fieri ferro liquidove potest electro,<br />
Quantum ignes animaeque valent, absiste precando<br />
Viribus indubitare tuis." Ea verba locutus<br />
Optatos <strong>de</strong>dit amplexus, placidumque petivit 405<br />
Oonjugis infusus gremio per membra soporem.<br />
In<strong>de</strong> ubi prima quies medio jam Noctis abactae<br />
Ourriculo expulerat somnum, quum femina primum,<br />
Oui tolerare colo vitam tenuique Minerva<br />
Impositum, einerem et sopitos suseitat ignes, 410<br />
Noctem ad<strong>de</strong>ns oped, famulasque ad lumina longo<br />
Exereet penso, castum ut servare cubile<br />
Conjugis et possit pat·vos educere natos :<br />
Haud secus Ignipotens nee tempore segnior illo<br />
Mollibus e :Lratis opera ad fl1bl'ilia surgit. 415<br />
Insula Sieanium juxta latus Aeoliamque<br />
Erigitur Liparen, fumantibus ardua saxis,<br />
Quam subter specus et Oyclopum exesa caminis<br />
Antra Aetnaea tonant, validique incudibus ictus<br />
Auditi referunt gemitulU, striduntque cavern is 420<br />
Stricturae Ohalybum, et fornacibus ignis anbelat ;<br />
Vulcani domus, ct Vulcania nomine tell us.<br />
Hoc tunc Ignipotells caelo <strong>de</strong>scenc1it ab alto.<br />
Ferrum cxerc bant vasto Oyclopes in antro,<br />
Brontesquc Steropesque etnudusmembra Pyragmon. 425<br />
IIis informatum manibns jam parte polita<br />
Fulmen erat; toto genitor quae plurima caelo<br />
Dejicit in ten'as ; pars imperfecta manebat:<br />
Trcs imbris torti radios, tre nnbis aquosae<br />
Addi<strong>de</strong>rant, rutil i tres ignis et alitis Allstri ; 430<br />
Flllgores nunc tenineos sonitumql1e metumque<br />
Miseebant ope1'i , tlal\l1l1isque scquacibus ira8.<br />
Parte alia Marti currumque rotasque volueres<br />
Instabant, quibus iIle viro. , quibus excitat urbes ;<br />
Aegidaque bOl'l'ifcram, turbatae Palladis arma, 435<br />
Certatim squamis sel'pentum auroque lolihant,<br />
Connexosque angues, ipsamque in pectore divae<br />
Gorgona, <strong>de</strong>seeto vertentem lumina eollo.<br />
"'l'ollite cuncta," inquit, "coeptosque !mferte labore.;,
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