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ing the field in triumphant warfare, the panic now passing to the town. He, raging-and Jove's stern will so demands quits the hills' ambush, and leaves the rough woodland. Scarce had he passed from view and gained the plain, when father Aeneas, entering the unguarded pass, scales the ridge, and issues from the shady wood. So both march toward the walls, swiftly and in full force, nor far distant from each other: and at the same moment Aeneas descried afar the plain smoking with dust, and saw the Laurentine hosts, and Turnus was aware of fell Aeneas in arms, and heard the coming of feet and the snorting of steeds. And straightway would they enter the fray and essay conflict, but ruddy Phoebus now laves his weary team in the Iberian flood, and, as day ebbs, brings back the night. Before the city they encamp and strengthen the ramparts.

LIBER XII

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TURNUS ut infractos adverso Marte Latinos defecisse videt, sua nunc promissa reposci, se signari oculis, ultro implacabilis ardet attollitque animos. Poenorum qualis in arvis, saucius ille gravi venantum volnere pectus, tum demum movet arma leo, gaudetque comantis excutiens cervice toros fixumque latronis impavidus frangit telum et fremit ore cruento: haud secus accenso gliscit violentia Turno. tum sic adfatur regem atque ita turbidus infit: "nulla mora in Turno; nihil est, quod dicta retractent ignavi Aeneadae, nec quae pepigere recusent: congredior. fer sacra, pater, et concipe foedus. aut hac Dardanium dextra sub Tartara mittam, desertorem Asiae, (sedeant spectentque Latini) et solus ferro crimen commune refellam,

aut habeat victos, cedat Lavinia coniunx.”

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"o praestans animi iuvenis, quantum ipse feroci virtute exsuperas, tanto me impensius aequum est consulere atque omnis metuentem expendere casus. sunt tibi regna patris Dauni, sunt oppida capta

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BOOK XII

WHEN Turnus sees the Latins crushed and faint of heart through war's reverse, his own pledge now claimed, and himself the mark of every eye, forthwith he blazes with wrath unappeasable and raises high his spirit. As in Punic fields a lion, when wounded, lo! with grievous stroke of huntsmen in the breast, then only wakes to war, joyously tosses from his neck his shaggy main, and snaps, undaunted, the robber's implanted dart, roaring with blood-stained mouth: even so in Turnus' kindling soul the fury swells. Then thus he accosts the king, and with these wild words begins:

11" With Turnus lies no delay! no need is there for the coward sons of Aeneas to recall their words or to renounce their pact! I go to meet him. Bring the holy rites, sire, and frame the covenant. Either with this arm will I hurl to hell the Dardan, the Asian runaway-let the Latins sit and see itand with my single sword refute the nation's shame ; 1 o let him be lord of the vanquished, let Lavinia pass to him as bride!"

18 To him Latinus with unruffled soul replied: "O youth of matchless spirit, the more in fierce valour thou dost excel, all the more heedfully is it meet that I ponder and with fear weigh every chance. Thou hast thy father Daunus' realms, hast

All are under the slur of cowardice.

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nec genus indecores. sine me haec haud mollia fatu 25 sublatis aperire dolis, simul hoc animo hauri: me natam nulli veterum sociare procorum fas erat, idque omnes divique hominesque canebant. victus amore tui, cognato sanguine victus, coniugis et maestae lacrimis, vincla omnia rupi: promissam eripui genero, arma impia sumpsi. ex illo qui me casus, quae, Turne, sequantur bella vides, quantos primus patiare labores. bis magna victi pugna vix urbe tuemur spes Italas; recalent nostro Tiberina fluenta sanguine adhuc campique ingentes ossibus albent. quo referor totiens? quae mentem insania mutat ? si Turno exstincto socios sum adscire paratus, cur non incolumi potius certamina tollo? quid consanguinei Rutuli, quid cetera dicet Italia, ad mortem si te (Fors dicta refutet!) prodiderim, natam et conubia nostra petentem ? respice res bello varias; miserere parentis longaevi, quem nunc maestum patria Ardea longe dividit." haudquaquam dictis violentia Turni flectitur; exsuperat magis aegrescitque medendo.

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