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<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong><br />
254 VERGILI .AENEIS XII.<br />
Nee genus in<strong>de</strong>cores. Sine me haec haud mollia fatn 25<br />
Sublatis aperire dolis, simul hoc animo bauri :<br />
Me natam llulli veterum sociare pro corum<br />
Fas erat, idquo omnes divique hominesque canebant;<br />
Victus amore tui, cognato sanguine victus,<br />
Oonjugis et macstae lacrimis, vincla omnia rnpi, 30<br />
Promissam eripui genero, arma impia sumpsi.<br />
Ex illo qui me casus, quae, Turne, sequantur<br />
Bella, vi<strong>de</strong>s, quantos primus patiare labores.<br />
Bis magna victi pugna vix mbe tuemur<br />
Spes !talas; recalent nostro 'l'hybrina fluenta 35<br />
Sanguine adhuc, campique ingentes ossibus albent.<br />
Quo referor toties? quae mentem insania lUutat?<br />
Si Turno exstincto socios sum adseire paratus,<br />
Our non incolumi potius certamina tolIo?<br />
Quid consanguinei Rutu!i, quid cetera dicet 40<br />
Italia, ad mortem 8i te (Fors dicta refutet I)<br />
Prodi<strong>de</strong>rim, natam et connubia nostra petelltem ?<br />
Respice res bello varias; miserere parentis<br />
Longaevi, quem nunc maestum patria Ar<strong>de</strong>a longe<br />
Dividit." llaudquaquam c1ictis violentia rrurni .j.6<br />
Flectitur; exsuperat magis, aegrescitque me<strong>de</strong>ndo.<br />
Ut primum fari potuit, sic institit ore:<br />
" Quam pro me curam geris, hanc precor, optime, pro roC<br />
Deponas, letumque sinas pro lau<strong>de</strong> paeisei:<br />
Et nos tela, pater, ferrum que haud <strong>de</strong>bile c1extra<br />
Spargimus; et nostro sequitur <strong>de</strong> vulnere sanguis.<br />
Longe illi <strong>de</strong>a mater erit, quae nube fugacem<br />
Feminea tegat, et vanis sese occulat umbris."<br />
At regina, nova pugnae eonterrita sorte, 5<br />
Flebat, et ar<strong>de</strong>ntem gene rum moritura tenebat: 5<br />
" Turne, per has ego te laerimas, per si quis Amatae<br />
Tangit honos animum, (spes tu nunc una, senectac<br />
Tu requios miserae; <strong>de</strong>eus imperiumque Latini<br />
To penes; in te omnis domu inelillata recwubit,) 60<br />
Unum oro: <strong>de</strong>siste manum committere Teucris.<br />
Qui te cumque manent isto eertamine casus,<br />
Et me, Turne, manent: simul haec invisa relinquaDl<br />
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