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<strong>Aeneis</strong>/Liber X 199<br />
stare procul campis med<strong>it</strong>antem in proelia taurum, 455<br />
aduolat, haud alia est Turni uenientis imago.<br />
hunc ubi contiguum missae fore credid<strong>it</strong> hastae,<br />
ire prior Pallas, si qua fors adiuuet ausum<br />
uiribus imparibus, magnumque <strong>it</strong>a ad aethera fatur:<br />
'per patris hosp<strong>it</strong>ium et mensas, quas aduena adisti, 460<br />
te precor, Alcide, coeptis ingentibus adsis.<br />
cernat semineci sibi me rapere arma cruenta<br />
uictoremque ferant morientia lumina Turni.'<br />
audi<strong>it</strong> Alcides iuuenem magnumque sub imo<br />
corde prem<strong>it</strong> gem<strong>it</strong>um lacrimasque effund<strong>it</strong> inanis. 465<br />
tum gen<strong>it</strong>or natum dictis adfatur amicis:<br />
'stat sua cuique dies, breue et inreparabile tempus<br />
omnibus est u<strong>it</strong>ae; sed famam extendere factis,<br />
hoc uirtutis opus. Troiae sub moenibus altis<br />
tot gnati cecidere deum, quin occid<strong>it</strong> una 470<br />
Sarpedon, mea progenies; etiam sua Turnum<br />
fata uocant metasque dati peruen<strong>it</strong> ad aeui.'<br />
sic a<strong>it</strong>, atque oculos Rutulorum reic<strong>it</strong> aruis.<br />
At Pallas magnis em<strong>it</strong>t<strong>it</strong> uiribus hastam<br />
uaginaque caua fulgentem derip<strong>it</strong> ensem. 475<br />
illa uolans umeri surgunt qua tegmina summa<br />
incid<strong>it</strong>, atque uiam clipei mol<strong>it</strong>a per oras<br />
tandem etiam magno strinx<strong>it</strong> de corpore Turni.<br />
hic Turnus ferro praefixum robur acuto<br />
in Pallanta diu librans iac<strong>it</strong> atque <strong>it</strong>a fatur: 480<br />
'aspice num mage s<strong>it</strong> nostrum penetrabile telum.'<br />
dixerat; at clipeum, tot ferri terga, tot aeris,<br />
quem pellis totiens obeat circumdata tauri,<br />
uibranti cuspis medium transuerberat ictu<br />
loricaeque moras et pectus perforat ingens. 485<br />
ille rap<strong>it</strong> calidum frustra de uulnere telum:<br />
una eademque uia sanguis animusque sequuntur.<br />
corru<strong>it</strong> in uulnus (son<strong>it</strong>um super arma dedere)<br />
et terram hostilem moriens pet<strong>it</strong> ore cruento.<br />
quem Turnus super adsistens: 490<br />
'Arcades, haec' inqu<strong>it</strong> 'memores mea dicta referte<br />
Euandro: qualem meru<strong>it</strong>, Pallanta rem<strong>it</strong>to.<br />
quisquis honos tumuli, quidquid solamen humandi est,
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