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<strong>Aeneis</strong>/Liber XII 236<br />
bella, uides, quantos primus patiare labores.<br />
bis magna uicti pugna uix urbe tuemur<br />
spes Italas; recalent nostro Thybrina fluenta 35<br />
sanguine adhuc campique ingentes ossibus albent.<br />
quo referor totiens? quae mentem insania mutat?<br />
si Turno exstincto socios sum ascire paratus,<br />
cur non incolumi potius certamina tollo?<br />
quid consanguinei Rutuli, quid cetera dicet 40<br />
Italia, ad mortem si te (fors dicta refutet!)<br />
prodiderim, natam et conubia nostra petentem?<br />
respice res bello uarias, miserere parentis<br />
longaeui, quem nunc maestum patria Ardea longe<br />
diuid<strong>it</strong>.' haudquaquam dictis uiolentia Turni 45<br />
flect<strong>it</strong>ur; exsuperat magis aegresc<strong>it</strong>que medendo.<br />
ut primum fari potu<strong>it</strong>, sic inst<strong>it</strong><strong>it</strong> ore:<br />
'quam pro me curam geris, hanc precor, optime, pro me<br />
deponas letumque sinas pro laude pacisci.<br />
et nos tela, pater, ferrumque haud debile dextra 50<br />
spargimus, et nostro sequ<strong>it</strong>ur de uulnere sanguis.<br />
longe illi dea mater er<strong>it</strong>, quae nube fugacem<br />
feminea tegat et uanis sese occulat umbris.'<br />
At regina noua pugnae conterr<strong>it</strong>a sorte<br />
flebat et ardentem generum mor<strong>it</strong>ura tenebat: 55<br />
'Turne, per has ego te lacrimas, per si quis Amatae<br />
tang<strong>it</strong> honos animum: spes tu nunc una, senectae<br />
tu requies miserae, decus imperiumque Latini<br />
te penes, in te omnis domus inclinata recumb<strong>it</strong>.<br />
unum oro: desiste manum comm<strong>it</strong>tere Teucris. 60<br />
qui te cumque manent isto certamine casus<br />
et me, Turne, manent; simul haec inuisa relinquam<br />
lumina nec generum Aenean captiua uidebo.'<br />
accep<strong>it</strong> uocem lacrimis Lauinia matris<br />
flagrantis perfusa genas, cui plurimus ignem 65<br />
subiec<strong>it</strong> rubor et calefacta per ora cucurr<strong>it</strong>.<br />
Indum sanguineo ueluti uiolauer<strong>it</strong> ostro<br />
si quis ebur, aut mixta rubent ubi lilia multa<br />
alba rosa, talis uirgo dabat ore colores.<br />
illum turbat amor fig<strong>it</strong>que in uirgine uultus; 70<br />
ardet in arma magis paucisque adfatur Amatam:
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