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VERGILI AENEIS IV.<br />
A.r<strong>de</strong>t amans Dido traxitque per ossa furorem.<br />
Oommunem hunc ergo populum paribusque regamus<br />
Auspiciis; liceat Phrygio servil'e marito,<br />
Dotalesque tnae Tyrios permittere <strong>de</strong>xtrae."<br />
Olli (sen sit enim simulata mente 10cutam, 105<br />
Quo reg-num Italiae Libycas averteret oras)<br />
Sic contra est ingressa Venus: "Quis talia <strong>de</strong>mens<br />
Abnuat, aut tecum malit conten<strong>de</strong>re bello?<br />
Si modQ, quod memoras, factum fortuna sequatur.<br />
Sed fatis incerta feror, si Jupiter unam 110<br />
Esse velit rryriis urbem Trojaque profectis,<br />
Miscerive pro bet populos, aut foe<strong>de</strong>ra jungi.<br />
Tu conjunx: tibi fas animum tentare preeando.<br />
Perge; sequar." Tum sic exeepit regia Juno:<br />
"Mecum erit iste labor. Nunc qua ratione quod instat 115<br />
Confieri possit, paueis, adverte, doeebo.<br />
Venatum Aeneas unaqne miserrirna Dido<br />
In nemus ire pal'ant, ubi primos crastinus ortus<br />
Extulerit Titan radiisque retexerit orbem.<br />
His ego nigrantem eommixta granc1ine nimbum, 120<br />
Dum trepidant alae, saltusque iudagine eingunt,<br />
Desuper infuuc1am, et tonitru eaelum omne ciebo.<br />
Diffugient comites, et noete tegentur opaea;<br />
Speluncam Dido dux et Trojanus ean<strong>de</strong>m<br />
Devenient. A<strong>de</strong>ro, et, tua si mibi certa voluntas, 125<br />
[Connubio jungam stabili propriamque dieabo :]<br />
Hic bymenaeus erit." Non adversata petenti<br />
Annuit, atque dolis risit Cytherea repertis.<br />
Oeeanum interea sUl'gens Aurora reliquit.<br />
It portis, jubare exorto, <strong>de</strong>1eeta jnventus ; 130<br />
Retia rant, plagae, lato vcnabula ferro,<br />
Massylique rUlmt equitcs et odora eanum vis.<br />
Reginam thalamo eunetantem ad limina primi<br />
Poenorum exspeetant; ostroquc insignis et auro<br />
Stat sonipes, ae frena ferox spumantia mandit. 135<br />
Tan<strong>de</strong>m progreditur, magna stipante eaterva,<br />
Sidoniam pieto ehlamy<strong>de</strong>m eireumdata limbo:<br />
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