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42 VERGILI AENEIS II.<br />
Hic vero ingentem pugnam, ceu cetera nusquam<br />
Bella forent, nulli tota morerentur in urbe,<br />
Sic Martem indomitum Danaosque ad tecta ruentes 440<br />
Oernimus, obsessumque acta testudine limen.<br />
Haerent parietibus scalae, postesque sub ipsos<br />
Nituntur gradibus, clipeosque ad tela sinistris<br />
Protecti objiciunt, prensant fastigia <strong>de</strong>xtris.<br />
Dardanidae contra turres ac tOtIL domol'um 445<br />
Oulmina convellunt, (his se, quando ultima cernunt,<br />
Extrema jam in morte parant <strong>de</strong>fen<strong>de</strong>re telis,)<br />
Auratasque trabes, veterum <strong>de</strong>cora alta parentum,<br />
Devolvunt; alii strictis mucronibus imas<br />
Obse<strong>de</strong>re fores, has servant agmine <strong>de</strong>nso. 450<br />
Instaurati animi, regis succurrere tectis,<br />
Auxilioque lev are viros, vimque ILd<strong>de</strong>re victis.<br />
Limen erat caecaeque fores et pervius usus<br />
Tectorum inter se Priami, postesquc relicti<br />
A tergo, infelix qua se, dum regna manebant, 455<br />
Saepius Andromache ferre incomitata solebat<br />
Ad soceros, et avo puerum Astyanacta trahebat.<br />
Evado ad summi fll,stigia culminis, un<strong>de</strong><br />
Tela manu miseri jactabant irrita Teucri.<br />
Turrim, in praecipiti stantem summisque sub astra 460<br />
Eductam tectis, un<strong>de</strong> omnis Troja vi<strong>de</strong>ri<br />
Et DanILllm solitae naves et Achaica castra,<br />
Aggressi ferro circum, qua summa labantes<br />
J uncturas tabulata dabant, convellimus altis<br />
Sedibus, impulimnsque; elL laps[\, repentc rninam 465<br />
Cum sonitu trahit et DILnatun super agmina late<br />
Incidit. Ast alii subeunt, nec saxa nec ullum<br />
Telorum interea cessat genus.<br />
Vestibulum ante ipsum primoque in limine Pyrrbus<br />
Exsultat, telis et luce coruscus aena; 4'10<br />
Qualis ubi in lucem coluber mala gramina pastus,<br />
Frigida sub terra tumidum quem bruma tegebat,<br />
Nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque juventa,<br />
Lubrica convolvit subln-to pectore terga,
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