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<strong>Aeneis</strong>/Liber XII 245<br />
interea Aenean Mnestheus et fidus Achates<br />
Ascaniusque comes castris statuere cruentum 385<br />
alternos longa n<strong>it</strong>entem cuspide gressus.<br />
saeu<strong>it</strong> et infracta luctatur harundine telum<br />
eripere auxilioque uiam, quae proxima, posc<strong>it</strong>:<br />
ense secent lato uulnus telique latebram<br />
rescindant pen<strong>it</strong>us, seseque in bella rem<strong>it</strong>tant. 390<br />
iamque aderat Phoebo ante alios dilectus Iapyx<br />
Iasides, acri quondam cui captus amore<br />
ipse suas artis, sua munera, laetus Apollo<br />
augurium c<strong>it</strong>haramque dabat celerisque sag<strong>it</strong>tas.<br />
ille, ut depos<strong>it</strong>i proferret fata parentis, 395<br />
scire potestates herbarum usumque medendi<br />
malu<strong>it</strong> et mutas ag<strong>it</strong>are inglorius artis.<br />
stabat acerba fremens ingentem nixus in hastam<br />
Aeneas magno iuuenum et maerentis Iuli<br />
concursu, lacrimis immobilis. ille retorto 400<br />
Paeonium in morem senior succinctus amictu<br />
multa manu medica Phoebique potentibus herbis<br />
nequiquam trepidat, nequiquam spicula dextra<br />
sollic<strong>it</strong>at prensatque tenaci forcipe ferrum.<br />
nulla uiam Fortuna reg<strong>it</strong>, nihil auctor Apollo 405<br />
subuen<strong>it</strong>, et saeuus campis magis ac magis horror<br />
crebresc<strong>it</strong> propiusque malum est. iam puluere caelum<br />
stare uident: subeunt equ<strong>it</strong>es et spicula castris<br />
densa cadunt mediis. <strong>it</strong> tristis ad aethera clamor<br />
bellantum iuuenum et duro sub Marte cadentum. 410<br />
Hic Venus indigno nati concussa dolore<br />
dictamnum genetrix Cretaea carp<strong>it</strong> ab Ida,<br />
puberibus caulem foliis et flore comantem<br />
purpureo; non illa feris incogn<strong>it</strong>a capris<br />
gramina, cum tergo uolucres haesere sag<strong>it</strong>tae. 415<br />
hoc Venus obscuro faciem circumdata nimbo<br />
detul<strong>it</strong>, hoc fusum labris splendentibus amnem<br />
infic<strong>it</strong> occulte medicans, sparg<strong>it</strong>que salubris<br />
ambrosiae sucos et odoriferam panaceam.<br />
fou<strong>it</strong> ea uulnus lympha longaeuus Iapyx 420<br />
ignorans, sub<strong>it</strong>oque omnis de corpore fug<strong>it</strong><br />
quippe dolor, omnis stet<strong>it</strong> imo uulnere sanguis.
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