Primus init bellum Tyrrhenis asper ab oris
contemptor divom Mezentius agminaque armat.
Filius huic iuxta Lausus, quo pulchrior alter
650non fuit excepto Laurentis corpore Turni,
Lausus, equum domitor debellatorque ferarum,
ducit Agyllina nequiquam ex urbe secutos
mille viros, dignus, patriis qui laetior esset
imperiis et cui pater haud Mezentius esset.
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Vergil. Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics Of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.
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