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<strong>©Biblioteca</strong> <strong>Nacional</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Colombia</strong><br />
90 VERGILI AENEIS IV.<br />
Lamentis gemituque et femineo ululatu<br />
Tecta fremunt; resonat magnis plangoribus aether,<br />
N on aliter quam si immissis ruat hostibus omnis<br />
Carthago aut antiqua Tyros, fiammaeque furentes 670<br />
Culmina perque hominum volvantur perque <strong>de</strong>orum.<br />
Audiit exanimis, trepidoque exterrita cursu,<br />
Unguibus ora soror foedans et pectora pugnis,<br />
Per medios ruit, ac morientem nomine clamat:<br />
" Hoc illud, germana, fuit? me frau<strong>de</strong> petebas ? 675<br />
Hoc rogus iste mihi, hoc ignes araeque parabant?<br />
Quid primum <strong>de</strong>serta querar? comitemne sororem<br />
Sprevisti moriens? Ea<strong>de</strong>m me ad fata vocasses ;<br />
I<strong>de</strong>m ambas ferro dolor atque ea<strong>de</strong>m hora tulisset I<br />
His etiam struxi mallibus, patriosque vocavi 680<br />
Voce <strong>de</strong> os, sic te ut posita, cru<strong>de</strong>lis, abessem?<br />
Exstinxti te meque, soror, populumque patresque<br />
Sidonios urbemque tuam. Date, vulnera lymphis<br />
Abluam, et, extremus si quis super halitus en'at,<br />
Ore legam." Sic fata gradus evaserat altos, 685<br />
Semianimemque sinu germanam amplexa fovebat<br />
Cum gemitu, atque atros siccabat veste cruores.<br />
ilIa, graves oculos cona.ta attollere, rursus<br />
Deficit; illfixum stridit sub pectore vulnus.<br />
Ter sese attollens cubitoque annixa levavit; 690<br />
Ter revoluta toro est, oculisque errantibus alto<br />
Quaesivit caelo lucem, ingemuitque reporta.<br />
Tum Juno omnipotons, longum miserata dolorem<br />
Difficilesque obitus, Irim <strong>de</strong>misit Olympo,<br />
Quae luctalltem animam nexosque resolveret artus. 695<br />
N am quia nee fato, merita nee morte perlbat,<br />
Sed misera aute diem, subitoque aceensa furore,<br />
Nondum i11i flavum Proserpina vertice crinem<br />
Abstulerat, Stygioque capnt damnaverat Orco.<br />
Ergo Iris croceis per caelum roscida pennis, 700<br />
Mille trahens varios adverso sale colores,<br />
Devolat, et supra caput adstitit; t. Hunc ego Diti<br />
Sacrum jussa fero, teque isto corpore solvo,"<br />
Sic ait, et <strong>de</strong>xtra crinem secat: omnis et una<br />
Dilapsus calor, atque in ventos vita recessit. 705