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<strong>Aeneis</strong>/Liber XII 244<br />
uel conferre manum uel equo praeuertere uentos. 345<br />
Parte alia media Eumedes in proelia fertur,<br />
antiqui proles bello praeclara Dolonis,<br />
nomine auum referens, animo manibusque parentem,<br />
qui quondam, castra ut Danaum speculator adiret,<br />
ausus Pelidae pretium sibi poscere currus; 350<br />
illum Tydides alio pro talibus ausis<br />
adfec<strong>it</strong> pretio nec equis aspirat Achilli.<br />
hunc procul ut campo Turnus prospex<strong>it</strong> aperto,<br />
ante leui iaculo longum per inane secutus<br />
sist<strong>it</strong> equos biiugis et curru desil<strong>it</strong> atque 355<br />
semianimi lapsoque superuen<strong>it</strong>, et pede collo<br />
impresso dextrae mucronem extorquet et alto<br />
fulgentem ting<strong>it</strong> iugulo atque haec insuper add<strong>it</strong>:<br />
'en agros et, quam bello, Troiane, petisti,<br />
Hesperiam metire iacens: haec praemia, qui me 360<br />
ferro ausi temptare, ferunt, sic moenia condunt.'<br />
huic com<strong>it</strong>em Asbyten coniecta cuspide m<strong>it</strong>t<strong>it</strong><br />
Chloreaque Sybarimque Daretaque Thersilochumque<br />
et sternacis equi lapsum ceruice Thymoeten.<br />
ac uelut Edoni Boreae cum spir<strong>it</strong>us alto 365<br />
insonat Aegaeo sequ<strong>it</strong>urque ad l<strong>it</strong>ora fluctus,<br />
qua uenti incubuere, fugam dant nubila caelo:<br />
sic Turno, quacumque uiam secat, agmina cedunt<br />
conuersaeque ruunt acies; fert impetus ipsum<br />
et cristam aduerso curru quat<strong>it</strong> aura uolantem. 370<br />
non tul<strong>it</strong> instantem Phegeus animisque frementem<br />
obiec<strong>it</strong> sese ad currum et spumantia frenis<br />
ora c<strong>it</strong>atorum dextra detors<strong>it</strong> equorum.<br />
dum trah<strong>it</strong>ur pendetque iugis, hunc lata retectum<br />
lancea consequ<strong>it</strong>ur rump<strong>it</strong>que infixa bilicem 375<br />
loricam et summum degustat uulnere corpus.<br />
ille tamen clipeo obiecto conuersus in hostem<br />
ibat et auxilium ducto mucrone petebat,<br />
cum rota praecip<strong>it</strong>em et procursu conc<strong>it</strong>us axis<br />
impul<strong>it</strong> effund<strong>it</strong>que solo, Turnusque secutus 380<br />
imam inter galeam summi thoracis et oras<br />
abstul<strong>it</strong> ense caput truncumque reliqu<strong>it</strong> harenae.<br />
Atque ea dum campis uictor dat funera Turnus,
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