Ilicet in muros tota discurritur urbe.
Consilium ipse pater et magna incepta Latinus
470deserit ac tristi turbatus tempore differt
multaque se incusat, qui non adceperit ultro
Dardanium Aenean generumque adsciverit urbi.
Praefodiunt alii portas aut saxa sudesque
subvectant. Bello dat signum rauca cruentum
475bucina. Tum muros varia cinxere corona
matronae puerique: vocat labor ultimus omnis.
Nec non ad templum summasque ad Palladis arces
subvehitur magna matrum regina caterva
dona ferens, iuxtaque comes Lavinia virgo,
480causa mali tanti, oculos deiecta decoros.
Succedunt matres et templum ture vaporant
et maestas alto fundunt de limine voces:
“Armipotens, praeses belli, Tritonia virgo,
frange manu telum Phrygii praedonis et ipsum
485pronum sterne solo portisque effunde sub altis.”
Cingitur ipse furens certatim in proelia Turnus.
Iamque adeo rutilum thoraca indutus aenis
horrebat squamis surasque incluserat auro,
tempora nudus adhuc, laterique adcinxerat ensem
490fulgebatque alta decurrens aureus arce,
exsultatque animis et spe iam praecipit hostem:
qualis ubi abruptis fugit praesaepia vinclis
tandem liber equus campoque potitus aperto
aut ille in pastus armentaque tendit equarum
495aut adsuetus aquae perfundi flumine noto
emicat adrectisque fremit cervicibus alte
luxurians, luduntque iubae per colla, per armos.
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Vergil. Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.
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