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<strong>Aeneis</strong>/Liber X 201<br />
sustul<strong>it</strong> ista prior iam tum Pallante perempto.<br />
hoc patris Anchisae manes, hoc sent<strong>it</strong> Iulus.'<br />
sic fatus galeam laeua tenet atque reflexa 535<br />
ceruice orantis capulo tenus applicat ensem.<br />
nec procul Haemonides, Phoebi Triuiaeque sacerdos,<br />
infula cui sacra redimibat tempora u<strong>it</strong>ta,<br />
totus conlucens ueste atque insignibus albis.<br />
quem congressus ag<strong>it</strong> campo, lapsumque superstans 540<br />
immolat ingentique umbra teg<strong>it</strong>, arma Serestus<br />
lecta refert umeris tibi, rex Gradiue, tropaeum.<br />
Instaurant acies Volcani stirpe creatus<br />
Caeculus et ueniens Marsorum montibus Vmbro.<br />
Dardanides contra fur<strong>it</strong>: Anxuris ense sinistram 545<br />
et totum clipei ferro deiecerat orbem<br />
(dixerat ille aliquid magnum uimque adfore uerbo<br />
crediderat, caeloque animum fortasse ferebat<br />
can<strong>it</strong>iemque sibi et longos promiserat annos);<br />
Tarqu<strong>it</strong>us exsultans contra fulgentibus armis, 550<br />
siluicolae Fauno Dryope quem nympha crearat,<br />
obuius ardenti sese obtul<strong>it</strong>. ille reducta<br />
loricam clipeique ingens onus imped<strong>it</strong> hasta,<br />
tum caput orantis nequiquam et multa parantis<br />
dicere deturbat terrae, truncumque tepentem 555<br />
prouoluens super haec inimico pectore fatur:<br />
'istic nunc, metuende, iace. non te optima mater<br />
condet humi patrioque onerab<strong>it</strong> membra sepulcro:<br />
al<strong>it</strong>ibus linquere feris, aut gurg<strong>it</strong>e mersum<br />
unda feret piscesque impasti uulnera lambent.' 560<br />
protinus Antaeum et Lucam, prima agmina Turni,<br />
persequ<strong>it</strong>ur, fortemque Numam fuluumque Camertem,<br />
magnanimo Volcente satum, d<strong>it</strong>issimus agri<br />
qui fu<strong>it</strong> Ausonidum et tac<strong>it</strong>is regnau<strong>it</strong> Amyclis.<br />
Aegaeon qualis, centum cui bracchia dicunt 565<br />
centenasque manus, quinquaginta oribus ignem<br />
pectoribusque arsisse, Iouis cum fulmina contra<br />
tot paribus streperet clipeis, tot stringeret ensis:<br />
sic toto Aeneas desaeu<strong>it</strong> in aequore uictor<br />
ut semel intepu<strong>it</strong> mucro. quin ecce Niphaei 570<br />
quadriiugis in equos aduersaque pectora tend<strong>it</strong>.
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