Jam jam linquo acies. Ne me terrete timentem,
Obscenæ volucres; alarum verbera nosco,
Letalemque sonum; nec fallunt jussa superba
Magnanimi Jovis. Hæc pro virginitate reponit ?
Quo vitam dedit æternam ? cur mortis ademta est
Conditio? possem tantos finire dolores
Nunc certe, et misero fratri comes ire per umbras.
Immortalis ego ? aut quidquam mihi dulce meorum
Te sine, frater, erit? O quæ satis alta dehiscat
Terra mihi, manesque deam demittat ad imos ?"
Tantum effata, caput glauco contexit amictu
Multa gemens, et se fluvio dea condidit alto.
Eneas instat contra, telumque coruscat
Ingens arboreum, et sævo sic pectore fatur:
“Quæ nunc deinde mora est ? aut quid jam, Turne, retractas?
Non cursu, sævis certandum est cominus armis.
Verte omnes tete in facies; et contrahe, quidquid
Sive animis sive arte vales; opta ardua pennis
Astra sequi, clausumve cava te condere terra."
Ille caput quassans: "Non me tua fervida terrent
Dicta, ferox; di me terrent, et Jupiter hostis."
Nec plura effatus, saxum circumspicit ingens,
Saxum antiquum, ingens, campo quod forte jacebat,
Limes agro positus, litem ut discerneret arvis ;
Vix illud lecti bis sex cervice subirent,
Qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus :
Ille manu raptum trepida torquebat in hostem,
Altior insurgens, et cursu concitus heros.
Sed neque currentem se, nec cognoscit euntem,
Tollentemve manu saxumque immane moventem:
Genua labant; gelidus concrevit frigore sanguis.
Tum lapis ipse viri, vacuum per inane volutus,
Nec spatium evasit totum, nec pertulit ictum.
Ac velut in somnis, oculos ubi languida pressit
Nocte quies, nequidquam avidos extendere cursus
Velle videmur, et in mediis conatibus ægri
Succidimus; non lingua valet, non corpore notæ
Sufficiunt vires, nec vox aut verba sequuntur:
Sic Turno, quacumque viam virtute petivit,
Successum dea dira negat. Tum pectore sensus
Vertuntur varii. Rutulos aspectat et urbem,
Cunctaturque metu, telumque instare tremiscit;
Nec quo se eripiat, nec qua vi tendat in hostem,
Nec currus usquam videt, aurigamve sororem.
Cunctanti telum Æneas fatale coruscat,
Sortitus fortunam oculis; et corpore toto
Eminus intorquet. Murali concita nunquam
Tormento sic saxa fremunt, nec fulmine tanti
Dissultant crepitus. Volat atri turbinis instar
Exitium dirum hasta ferens, orasque recludit
Loricæ, et clipei extremos septemplicis orbes;
Per medium stridens transit femur. Incidit ictus
Ingens ad terram duplicato poplite Turnus.
Consurgunt gemitu Rutuli, totusque remugit
Mons circum, et vocem late nemora alta remittunt.
Ille humilis supplexque oculos dextramque precantem
Protendens," Equidem merui, nec deprecor," inquit;
"Utere sorte tua. Miseri te si qua parentis
Tangere cura potest, oro-fuit et tibi talis
Anchises genitor-Dauni miserere senectæ ;
Et me, seu corpus spoliatum lumine mavis,
Redde meis. Vicisti; et victum tendere palmas
Ausonii videre; tua est Lavinia conjux ;
Ulterius ne tende odiis." Stetit acer in armis
Æneas, volvens oculos, dextramque repressit;
Et jam jamque magis cunctantem flectere sermo
Coperat: infelix humero quum apparuit alto
Balteus, et notis fulserunt cingula bullis
Pallantis pueri; victum quem vulnere Turnus
Straverat atque humeris inimicum insigne gerebat.
Ille, oculis postquam sævi monumenta doloris
Exuviasque hausit, furiis accensus, et ira
Terribilis: "Tune hinc spoliis indute meorum
Eripiare mihi? Pallas te hoc vulnere, Pallas
Immolat, et pœnam scelerato ex sanguine sumit."
Hoc dicens, ferrum adverso sub pectore condit
Fervidus. Ast illi solvuntur frigore membra,
Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras.
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