Haec ubi dicta dedit rapidusque in tecta recessit.
poscit equos gaudetque tuens ante ora frementis,
Pilumno quos ipsa decus dedit Orithyia,
qui candore nives anteirent, cursibus auras.
85Circumstant properi aurigae manibusque lacessunt
pectora plausa cavis et colla comantia pectunt.
Ipse dehinc auro squalentem alboque orichalco
circumdat loricam umeris; simul aptat habendo
ensemque clipeumque et rubrae cornua cristae.
90ensem, quem Dauno ignipotens deus ipse parenti
fecerat et Stygia candentem tinxerat unda.
Exin quae mediis ingenti adnixa columnae
aedibus adstabat, validam vi corripit hastam,
Actoris Aurunci spolium, quassatque trementem
95vociferans: “Nunc, O numquam frustrata vocatus
hasta meos, nunc tempus adest: te maximus Actor
te Turni nunc dextra gerit. Da sternere corpus
loricamque manu valida lacerare revulsam
semiviri Phrygis et foedare in pulvere crinis
100vibratos calido ferro murraque madentis.”
His agitur furiis; totoque ardentis ab ore
scintillae absistunt, oculis micat acribus ignis:
mugitus veluti cum prima in proelia taurus
terrificos ciet atque irasci in cornua temptat,
105arboris obnixus trunco, ventosque lacessit
ictibus aut sparsa ad pugnam proludit harena.
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Vergil. Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.
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