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Speaker 1: Book twelve, Part one of the Eneid by Virgil. This
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Speaker 1: The Eneid by Virgil, translated by John Dryden, Book twelve,
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Speaker 1: The Fortunes of War, Part one. When Turnus saw the
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Speaker 1: Latins leave the field, their armies broken and their courage quelled,
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Speaker 1: himself become a mark of public spite, his honor question
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Speaker 1: for the promised fight. The more he was with vulgar
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Speaker 1: hate oppressed, the more his fury boiled within his breast.
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Speaker 1: He roused his vigor for the last debate, and raised
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Speaker 1: his haughty soul to meet his fate. As when the
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Speaker 1: swains the Libyan lion chase, he makes a sour retreat,
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Speaker 1: nor mends his pace. But if the pointed javelin pierce
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Speaker 1: his side, the lordly beast returns with double pride. He
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Speaker 1: wrenches out the steel, He roars for pain his sides,
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Speaker 1: He lashes and erects his mane. So Turnus fares his eyeballs,
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Speaker 1: flash with fire, throw his wide nostrils, clouds of smoke expire,
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Speaker 1: trembling with rage around the court. He ran at length
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Speaker 1: approached the king, and thus began no more excuses or delays.
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Speaker 1: I stand in arms, prepared to combat hand to hand
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Speaker 1: this base deserter of his native land. The Trojan, by
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Speaker 1: his word, is bound to take the same conditions which
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Speaker 1: himself did make. Renew the truce. The solemn rites prepare,
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Speaker 1: and to my single virtue trust the war. The Latians, unconcerned,
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Speaker 1: shall see the fight. This arm, unaided, shall assert your right. Then,
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Speaker 1: if my prostrate body press the plane to him, the
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Speaker 1: crown and beauteous bride remain to whom the king sedately
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Speaker 1: thus replied, brave youth, the more your valor has been tried,
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Speaker 1: the more becomes at us with due respect to weigh
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Speaker 1: the chance of war, which you neglect. You ought not
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Speaker 1: wealth or a successive throne, or cities which your arms
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Speaker 1: have made your own. My towns and treasures are at
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Speaker 1: your command, and stored with blooming beauties. Is my land Laurentum,
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Speaker 1: more than one Lavinia sees unmarried fair of noble families.
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Speaker 1: Now let me speak and you with patience. Here things
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Speaker 1: which perhaps make great a lover's ear, but sound advice
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Speaker 1: proceeding from a heart sincerely yours and free from fraudful art.
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Speaker 1: The gods, by signs have manifestly shown no prince Italian
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Speaker 1: born should heir my throne oft to have our augurs
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Speaker 1: in predictions skill'd, and oft our priests for in son
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Speaker 1: revealed yet one by worth that cannot be withstood. Bribed
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Speaker 1: by my kindness to my kindred blood, urged by my wife,
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Speaker 1: who would not be denied, I promised my Lavinia for
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Speaker 1: your bride her from her plighted lord. By force, I
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Speaker 1: took all ties of treaties and of honor broke on
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Speaker 1: your account. I wage an impious war, with what success
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Speaker 1: tis needless to declare I and my subjects feel, and
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Speaker 1: you have had your share twice vanquish'd. While in bloody
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Speaker 1: fields we strive scarce. In our walls we keep our
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Speaker 1: hopes alive. The rolling flood warm runs warm with human gore,
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Speaker 1: the bones of Latians blanch the neighboring shore. Why put
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Speaker 1: I not an end to this debate, still unresolved, and
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Speaker 1: still a slave to fate. If turnus death a lasting
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Speaker 1: peace can give, why should I not procure it whilst
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Speaker 1: you live. Should I to doubtful arms your youth betray,
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Speaker 1: what would my kinsmen the Rutulians say? And should you
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Speaker 1: fall in flight which heaven defend, how curse the cause
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Speaker 1: which hastened to his end. The daughter's lover and the
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Speaker 1: father's friend weigh in your mind the various chance of war.
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Speaker 1: Pity your parent's age, and ease his care. Such balmy
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Speaker 1: words he poured, but all in vain. The proffered medicine,
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Speaker 1: but provoked the pain. The wrathful youth, disdaining the relief
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Speaker 1: with intermitting sobs, thus vents his grief. The care, oh
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Speaker 1: best of fathers, which you take for my concerns, at
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Speaker 1: my desire forsake, Permit me not to languish out my days,
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Speaker 1: but make the best exchange of life for praise this arm.
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Speaker 1: This lance can well dispute the prize, and the blood
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Speaker 1: follows where the weapon flies. His goddess Mother is not
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Speaker 1: near to shroud the flying coward with an empty cloud.
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Speaker 1: But now the queen, who feared for turnus life and
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Speaker 1: loathe the hard conditions of the strife, held him by force,
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Speaker 1: and dying in his death. In these sad accents, gave
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Speaker 1: her sorrow breath. O turnus, I adjure thee by these tears,
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Speaker 1: and whatever price Amata's honor bears within thy breast. Since
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Speaker 1: thou art all my hope, my sickly minds repose my
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Speaker 1: sinking ages. Since on the safety of thy life alone
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Speaker 1: depends Latinus and the Latian throne. Refuse me, not this one.
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Speaker 1: This only prayer to wave the combat and pursue the war.
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Speaker 1: Whatever chance attends this fatal strife, think it includes in
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Speaker 1: thine Amata's life. I cannot live a slave, or see
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Speaker 1: my throne usurped by strangers or a trojan's sun. At
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Speaker 1: this a flood of tears. Lavinius shed a crimson blush,
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Speaker 1: her beauteous face, overspread varying her cheeks by turns with
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Speaker 1: white and red. The driving colors never out of stay,
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Speaker 1: run here and there, and flush and fade away. Delightful change.
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Speaker 1: Thus Indian ivory shows which the bordering pain of purple
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Speaker 1: glows or lilies, damasked by the neighboring rose, the lover
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Speaker 1: gazed and burning with desire. The more he looked, the
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Speaker 1: more he fed the fire revenge and jealous rage and
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Speaker 1: secret spite, rolled in his breast and roused him to
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Speaker 1: the fight. Then, fixing on the queen, his ardent eyes
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Speaker 1: firm to his first intent, he thus replies, O, Mother,
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Speaker 1: do not, by your tears prepare such boding omens and
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Speaker 1: prejudge the war resolved on fight, I am no longer
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Speaker 1: free to shun my death. If Heaven my death decree. Then,
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Speaker 1: turning to the herald, thus pursues, go greet the Trojan
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Speaker 1: with ungrateful news. Denounce from me that, when tomorrow's light
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Speaker 1: shall gild the heavens, he need not her to the fight.
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Speaker 1: The Trojan and Rutulian troops no more shall die with
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Speaker 1: mutual blood. The Latian shore are single swords. The quarrel
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Speaker 1: shall decide, and to the victor be the beauteous bride,
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Speaker 1: he said, And striding on with speedy pace, he sought
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Speaker 1: his coursers of the Thracian race at his approach. They
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Speaker 1: tossed their heads on high and proudly, naying, promise, Victori,
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Speaker 1: the sires of these erythea sent from far to grace piluminous.
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Speaker 1: When he went to war. The drifts of Thracian snows
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Speaker 1: were scarce, so white nor northern winds in fleetness match'd
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Speaker 1: their flight. Officious grooms stand ready by his side, and
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Speaker 1: some with combs their flowing manes divide, and others stroked
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Speaker 1: their chests and gently soothed their pride. He sheath'd his
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Speaker 1: limbs in arms a temper'd mass of golden metal, those
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Speaker 1: and mountain brass. Then to his head his glitt'ring helm
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Speaker 1: he tied and girt his faithful fausion to his side
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Speaker 1: in his Attanian forge, the god of fire, that faucion
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Speaker 1: labor'd to the hero's sire, immortal keenness on the blade,
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Speaker 1: bestow'd and plunged it, hissing in the Stygian flood, propp'd
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Speaker 1: on a pillar which the ceiling bore was placed the
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Speaker 1: lance auruncan actor war, which with such force he brandish'd
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Speaker 1: in his hand. The tough ash trembled like an o'ceer
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Speaker 1: wand then cried, O ponderous spoil of actors slain, and
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Speaker 1: never yet by turnus tossed in vain. Fail not this
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Speaker 1: day thy wonted force, But go sent by this hand
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Speaker 1: to fierce the trojan foe. Give me to tear his
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Speaker 1: corselet from his breast, and from that eunuch head to
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Speaker 1: rend the crest dragged in the dust, his frizzled hair
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Speaker 1: to soil hot from the vexing iron, and smeared with
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Speaker 1: fragrant oil. Thus, while he raves from his wide nostrils,
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Speaker 1: flies a fiery steam and sparkles from his eyes, so
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Speaker 1: fares the bull his loved female sight. Proudly, he bellows
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Speaker 1: and preludes the fight. He tries his goring horns against
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Speaker 1: the tree and meditates his absent enemy. He pushes at
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Speaker 1: the winds, He digs the strand with his black hoofs
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Speaker 1: and spurns the yellow sand. Nor less the trojan in
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Speaker 1: his lemnion arms to future fight. His manly courage warms,
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Speaker 1: He wets his fury, and with joy, prepares to terminate
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Speaker 1: at once the lingering war. To cheer his chiefs and
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Speaker 1: tender sun relates what heaven had promised, and expounds the
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Speaker 1: fates than to the Latian king, he sends to cease
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Speaker 1: the rage of arms and ratify the peace. The morn
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Speaker 1: ensuing from the mountain's height, had scarcely spread the skies
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Speaker 1: with rosy light. Thethereal cursers bounding from the sea from
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Speaker 1: out their flaming nostrils breathe the day when now the
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Speaker 1: Trojan and Rutulian guard in friendly labor joined the lists
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Speaker 1: prepared beneath the walls, they measure out the space. Then
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Speaker 1: sacred altars rear on sods of grass, where with religious
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Speaker 1: their common gods they place in purest white. The priests
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Speaker 1: their heads attire and living waters, bear and holy fire,
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Speaker 1: and o'er their linen hoods and shaded hair long to
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Speaker 1: twisted wreaths of sacred Verian war in order. Issuing from
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Speaker 1: the town appears the Latin Legion, armed with pointed spears,
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Speaker 1: and from the fields, advancing on a line, the Trojan
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Speaker 1: and the Tuscan forces join. Their various arms afford a
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Speaker 1: pleasing sight, a peaceful tray. They seem in peace, prepared
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Speaker 1: for fight. Betwixt the ranks, the proud commanders ride, glittering
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Speaker 1: with gold and vests and purple dyed. Here Mnestheus, author
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Speaker 1: of the Memmian line, and there Messapus, born of seed divine.
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Speaker 1: The sign is given, and round the listed space, each man,
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Speaker 1: in order fills his proper place. Reclining on their ample shields,
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Speaker 1: they stand and fix their pointed lances in the sand
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Speaker 1: now studious of the sight, and numerous throng of either sex, promiscuous,
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Speaker 1: old and young swarm the town by those who rest
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Speaker 1: behind the gates, and walls and houses topped are lined. Meantime,
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Speaker 1: the Queen of Heav'n beheld the sight with eyes unpleased
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Speaker 1: from Mount Albano's height, since called Albano by succeeding fame,
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Speaker 1: but then an empty hill without a name. She thence
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Speaker 1: survey'd the field the Trojan powers, the Latian squadrons, and
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Speaker 1: Lorentine towers. Then thus the Goddess of the Skies bespoke
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Speaker 1: with sighs and tears. The Goddess of the lake king
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Speaker 1: turnus sister, once a lovely maid ere to the lust
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Speaker 1: of lawless Jove, betray'd compress'd by force, but by the
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Speaker 1: grateful God now made Denighus of the neighb'ring flood o Nymph,
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Speaker 1: the pride of living lakes, said she O, most renowned
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Speaker 1: and most beloved by me. Long hast thou known, nor
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Speaker 1: need I to record the wanton sallies of my wandering
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Speaker 1: lord of every Latian fair, whom Jove misled to mount
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Speaker 1: by stealth my violated bed to thee alone. I grudg'd
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Speaker 1: not his embrace, but gave a part of heaven in
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Speaker 1: an unenvied place. Now learn from me thy near approaching grief.
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Speaker 1: Nor think my wishes wont to thy relief, while fortune
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Speaker 1: favor nor Heaven's king deny to lend my succor to
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Speaker 1: the Latian side. I save thy brother and the sinking state.
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Speaker 1: But now he struggles with unequal fate and goes with
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Speaker 1: God's averse o'ermatch'd in might to meet inevitable death in fight.
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Speaker 1: Nor must I break the truce, nor can sustain the
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Speaker 1: sight thou. If thou darest thy present aid, supply it
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Speaker 1: well becomes a sister's care to try at this The
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Speaker 1: lovely nymph, with grief oppressed thrice tore her hair and
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Speaker 1: beat her comely breast to whom Saturnia. Thus thy tears
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Speaker 1: are late. Haste snatch him if he can be snatch'd
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Speaker 1: from fate new Tumult's kindle, violate the truce. Who knows
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Speaker 1: what changeful fortune may produce? Tis not a crime to
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Speaker 1: tempt what I decree, or if it were, discharge the
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Speaker 1: crime on me. She said, and, sailing on the winged wind,
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Speaker 1: left the sad nymph suspended in her mind and now
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Speaker 1: pomp The peaceful kings appear foresteeds. The chariot of the
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Speaker 1: Latinous bears twelve golden beams around his temple play to
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Speaker 1: mark his lineage from the god of day. Two snowy
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Speaker 1: coursers turneth chariot yoke, and in his hand two massy
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Speaker 1: spears he shook. Then issued from the camp in arms
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Speaker 1: divine Aeneas, author of the Roman line, and by his
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Speaker 1: side Ascanius took his place, the second hope of Rome's
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Speaker 1: immortal race. Adorned in white. A reverend priest appears and
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Speaker 1: offerings to the flaming altars. Bears a porket and a
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Speaker 1: lamb that never suffered. Shears. Then to the rising sun.
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Speaker 1: He turns his eyes and strews the beast's designed for
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Speaker 1: sacrifice the salt and meal with like officious care. He
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Speaker 1: marks their foreheads, and he clips their hair betwixt their horns.
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Speaker 1: The purple wine he sheds with the same generous juice
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Speaker 1: the flame he feeds. Aeneas then unsheathed his shining sword,
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Speaker 1: and thus, with pious prayers, the gods ador'd all seeing
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Speaker 1: sun and thou Ausonian soil for which I have sustain'd
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Speaker 1: so long a toil, Thou King of heav'n, and thou
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Speaker 1: the Queen of air, propitious now and reconcil'd by prayer,
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Speaker 1: Thou god of war, whose unresisted sway the labors and
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Speaker 1: events of arms, obey, ye living fountains, and ye running floods.
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Speaker 1: All powers of ocean, all ethereal gods hear and bear record.
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Speaker 1: If I fall in field, o'er recreant in the fight
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Speaker 1: to turnus yield. My trojans shall increase Evander's town, as
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Speaker 1: Ganius shall renounce the Estonian crown. All claims, all questions
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Speaker 1: of debate shall cease, nor he nor they with force
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Speaker 1: infringe the peace. But if my juster arms prevail and fight,
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Speaker 1: as sure they shall. For if I divine aright, my
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Speaker 1: trojans shall not o'er the Italian's reign. Both equal, both
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Speaker 1: unconquer'd shall remain join'd in their laws, their lands, and
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Speaker 1: their abodes. I ask but altars for my weary gods.
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Speaker 1: The care of those religious rites be mine. The crown
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Speaker 1: to King Latinus, I resign his be the sovereign's sway,
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Speaker 1: Nor will I share his power, in peace or his
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Speaker 1: command in war. For me, my friends, another town shall
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Speaker 1: frame and bless the rising towers with fair Lavinia's name.
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Speaker 1: Thus he then, with erected eyes and hands, the Latian
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Speaker 1: king before his altar, stands by the same heaven, said
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Speaker 1: he and Earth and man, and all the powers that
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Speaker 1: all three contain, by Hell below, and by that upper
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Speaker 1: God whose thunder signs the peace, who seals it with
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Speaker 1: his nod. So let Latona's double offspring hear and double
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Speaker 1: fronted Janus, what I swear, I touch the sacred altars,
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Speaker 1: touch the flames, and all those powers attest, and all
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Speaker 1: their names. Whatever chance befall on either side, no term
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Speaker 1: of time, this union shall divide, no force, no fortune.
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Speaker 1: Shall my vows unbind or shake the steadfast tenor of
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Speaker 1: my mind, Not though the circling seas should break their
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Speaker 1: bound o'erflow the shores or sap the solid ground, Not
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Speaker 1: though the lamps of Heaven their spheres forsake, hurled down
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Speaker 1: and hissing in the nether lake. Even as this royal scepter,
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Speaker 1: for he bore a scepter of his hand, shall never
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Speaker 1: more shoot out in branches or renew the birth an orphan,
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Speaker 1: now cut from the mother earth by the keen Ax,
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Speaker 1: dishonored of its hair, and cased in brass for Latian
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Speaker 1: kings to bear. When thus in public view, the peace
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Speaker 1: was tied. With solemn vows and sworn on either side,
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Speaker 1: all dues perform'd which holy rites require. The victim beasts
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Speaker 1: are slain before the fire. The trembling entrails from their bodies,
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Speaker 1: torn and to the fattened flames and chargers borne. Already,
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Speaker 1: the Rutulians deem their man o'ermatch'd in arms before the
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Speaker 1: fight begin. First, rising fears are whispered through the crowd. Then,
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Speaker 1: gathering sound, they murmur more aloud. Now side to side,
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Speaker 1: they measure with their eyes the champion's bulk, their sinews,
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Speaker 1: and their size. The nearer their approach, the more is
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Speaker 1: known the apparent disadvantage of their own Turnus himself appears
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Speaker 1: in public sight, conscious of his fate, desponding of the fight.
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Speaker 1: Slowly he moves and at his altars stands with eyes
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Speaker 1: dejected and with trembling hands. And while he mutters undistinguished prayers,
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Speaker 1: a livid deadness in his cheeks appears with anxious pleasure.
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Speaker 1: When Juturna viewed the increasing fright of the mad multitude.
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Speaker 1: When their short sighs and thickening sobs she heard and
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Speaker 1: found their ready minds for change prepared. Dissembling her immortal form,
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Speaker 1: she took Camertus Mien, his habit and his look. A
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Speaker 1: chief of ancient blood in arms well known was his
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Speaker 1: great sire, and he his greater son. His shape assumed
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Speaker 1: amid the ranks, she ran, and, humoring their first motions,
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Speaker 1: thus began for shame. Rtulians, Can you bear the sight
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Speaker 1: of one exposed for all in single fight? Can we,
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Speaker 1: before the face of Heaven confess our courage? Colder? Are
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Speaker 1: numbers less? View all the Trojan hosts, the Arcadian band
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Speaker 1: and Tuscan army. Count them as they stand and undaunted
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Speaker 1: to the battle. If we go scarce, every second man
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Speaker 1: will share a foe. Turnust is true in this unequal strife,
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Speaker 1: shall lose with honor his devoted life, or change it
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Speaker 1: rather for immortal fame, succeeding to the gods from whence
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Speaker 1: he came. But you, a servile and inglorious band for
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Speaker 1: foreign lords, shall sow your native land those fruitful fields
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Speaker 1: your fighting fathers gained which have so long their lazy
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Speaker 1: sons sustain'd with words like these, she carried her design.
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Speaker 1: A rising murmur runs across the line. Then even the
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Speaker 1: city troops and latians, tired with tedious war, seen with
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Speaker 1: new souls inspired their champions fate with pity. They lament,
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Speaker 1: and of the league so lately sworn repent. Nor fails
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Speaker 1: the goddess to foment the rage with lying wonders and
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Speaker 1: a false presage, but adds a sign, which, present to
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Speaker 1: their eyes, inspires courage and a glad surprise. For sudden
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Speaker 1: in the fiery tracts above, appears in pomp the Imperial
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Speaker 1: Bird of Jove, a plump of fowl. He spies that
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Speaker 1: swims the lakes and o'er their head. His sounding pinions shakes. Then,
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Speaker 1: stooping on the fairest of the train, in his strong talons,
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Speaker 1: trusts a silver swan. The Italians wonder at the unusual sight.
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Speaker 1: But while he lags and labors in his flight, behold
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Speaker 1: the dastard fowl return anew and with the united force,
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Speaker 1: the foe pursue clamorous around the Royal hawk. They fly,
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Speaker 1: and thickening in a cloud o'ershade the sky, they cuff,
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Speaker 1: they scratch, they cross his airy course. Nor can the
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Speaker 1: encumbered burn sustain their force. But vexed not vanquish'd drops
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Speaker 1: the ponderous prey, and lighten'd of his burthen wings his way.
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Speaker 1: The Ausonian bands, with shouts salute the sight, eager of action,
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Speaker 1: and demand the fight. Then, King to luminous versed in
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Speaker 1: Auger's arts, cries out, and thus his boasted skill imparts
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Speaker 1: at length. Tis granted what I long desired. This, this
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Speaker 1: is what my frequent vows requir'd ye gods, I take
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Speaker 1: your omen and obey, advance my friends, and charge I
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Speaker 1: lead the way. These are the foreign foes whose impious band,
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Speaker 1: like that rapacious bird, infests our land. But soon, like him,
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Speaker 1: they shall be forced to the sea by strength. United
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Speaker 1: and forego the prey, your timely succor to your country.
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Speaker 1: Bring haste to the rescue and redeem your king, he said, and,
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Speaker 1: pressing onward through the crew, poised his lifted arm and
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Speaker 1: his lance. He threw the winged weapon, whistling in the wind,
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Speaker 1: came driving on nor miss'd the mark design'd at once
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Speaker 1: the cornel rattled in the skies at once tumultuous shall
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Speaker 1: out and clamors rise. Nine brothers in a goodly band.
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Speaker 1: There stood born of Arcadian mixed with Tuscan blood Gylippus's sons.
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Speaker 1: The fatal javelin through aimed at the midmost of the
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Speaker 1: friendly crew, a passage through the jointed arms. It found
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Speaker 1: just where the belt was to the body bound, and
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Speaker 1: struck the gentle youth extended on the ground, then fired
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Speaker 1: with pious rage. The generous train run madly forward to
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Speaker 1: revenge the slain, and some with eager haste their javelin's throw,
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Speaker 1: and some with sword in hand, assault the foe. The
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Speaker 1: wish to insult. The Latin troops embrace and meet their
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Speaker 1: ardor in the middle space. The Trojans, Tuscans, and Arcadian line,
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Speaker 1: with equal courage, obviate their design. Peace leaves the violated
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Speaker 1: fields and hate. Both armies urges to their mutual fate
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Speaker 1: with impious haste. Their altars are o'erturned, the sacrifice half
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Speaker 1: broiled and half unburned. Thick storms of steel from either
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Speaker 1: army fly, and clouds of clashing darts obscure the sky.
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Speaker 1: Brands from the fire are missive weapons made with chargers, bowls,
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Speaker 1: and all the priestly trade. Latinus, frightened, hastens from the fray,
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Speaker 1: and bears his unregarded gods away. These on horses, vault
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Speaker 1: those yoked the car the rest, with swords on high,
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Speaker 1: run headlong to the war. Messapus, eager to confound the peace,
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Speaker 1: spurred his hot courser through the fighting priests, a king Alestes,
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Speaker 1: by his purple known a Tuscan prince and by his
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Speaker 1: regal crown, and with a shock encountering bore him down backwards.
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Speaker 1: He fell, and as his fate designed, the ruins of
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Speaker 1: an altar were behind there. Pitching on his shoulders and
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Speaker 1: his head amid the scattering fires, he lay supine, spread
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Speaker 1: the beamy spear descending from above, his curus pierced and
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Speaker 1: through his body drove. Then with a scornful smile, the
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Speaker 1: victor cries, the gods have found a fitter sacrifice. Greedy
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Speaker 1: of the spoils, the Italians stripped the dead of his
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Speaker 1: rich armor and uncrown his head. Priest Coranus armed his
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Speaker 1: better hand from his own altar with a blazing brand, and,
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Speaker 1: as Ebusus, with a thundering pace, advanced to battle, dashed
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Speaker 1: it on his face his bristly beard shines out with
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Speaker 1: sudden fires. The crackling crop a noisome scent expires. Following
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Speaker 1: the blow. He seized his curling crown with his left hand,
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Speaker 1: his other cast him down the prostrate body with his knees.
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Speaker 1: He pressed and plunged his holy poniard in his breast,
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Speaker 1: while Padelirius, with his sword, pursued. The shepherd alsus through
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Speaker 1: the flying crow. Swiftly, he turns and aims a deadly
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Speaker 1: blow full on the front of his unwary foe. The
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Speaker 1: broad axe enters with a crashing sound and cleaves the
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Speaker 1: chin with one continued wound, warm blood and mingled brains
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Speaker 1: besmear his arms around an iron sleep. His stupid eyes
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Speaker 1: oppressed and sealed their heavy lids in endless rest. But
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Speaker 1: good Aeneas rushed amidst the bands. There was his head,
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Speaker 1: and naked were his hands, in sign of truce. Then
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Speaker 1: thus he cried aloud, what sudden rage? What new desire
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Speaker 1: of blood inflames your altered minds? O trojans, cease from
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Speaker 1: impious arms, nor violate the peace by human sanctions and
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Speaker 1: by laws divine. The terms are all agreed. The war's
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Speaker 1: mind dismiss your fears, and let the fight ensue. This
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Speaker 1: hand alone shall right the gods, and you are injured
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Speaker 1: altars and their broken vow to this avenging sword. The
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Speaker 1: faithless turn Us o. Thus, while he spoke, unmindful of
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Speaker 1: de evince, a winged arrow struck the pious prince. But
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Speaker 1: whether from some human hand it came or hostile god,
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Speaker 1: is left unknown by fame. No human hand or hostile
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Speaker 1: god was found to boast the triumph of so base
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Speaker 1: a wound. When Turnus saw the trojan quit the plane,
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Speaker 1: his chiefs dismayed his troops a fainting train. The unhoped event,
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Speaker 1: his heightened soul inspires at once his arms and coursers
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Speaker 1: he requires. Then, with a leap, his lofty chariot gains,
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Speaker 1: and with a ready hand assumes the reins. He drives impetuous,
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Speaker 1: and wherever he goes he leaves behind a lane of
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Speaker 1: slaughtered foes. These his lance reaches over those, he rolls
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Speaker 1: his rapid car and crushes out their souls in vain,
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Speaker 1: the vanquished fly the victor sends the dead men's weapons
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Speaker 1: at their living friends. Thus, on the banks of hebris
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Speaker 1: freezing flood, the god of battle in his angry mood,
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Speaker 1: clashing his sword against his brazen shield, let loose the
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Speaker 1: reins and scours along the field before the wind. His
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Speaker 1: fiery coursers fly, groans, the sad earth resounds, the rattling sky, wrath, terror, treason,
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Speaker 1: tumult and despair. Dire faces and deformed surround the car
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Speaker 1: friends of the God and followers of the war with fury,
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Speaker 1: not unlike nor less disdain. Exulting Turnus flies along the
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Speaker 1: plain his smoking horses at their utmost speed. He lashes
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Speaker 1: on and urges o'er the dead. Their fetlocks run with blood,
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Speaker 1: and when they bound, the gore and gathering dust are
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Speaker 1: dashed around Thamyris and Pholus, masters of the war, he
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Speaker 1: kill'd at hand, but sththemus afar from far. The sons
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Speaker 1: of Imbracus he slew. Glaucus, and ladies of the Lisan crew,
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Speaker 1: both taught to fight on foot in battle, joined or
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Speaker 1: mount the courser that outstrips the wind. Meantime, eumedes vaunting
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Speaker 1: in the field, new fired the Trojans and their foes repelled.
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Speaker 1: The son of Dolan bore his grandsire's name, but emulated
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Speaker 1: more his father's name. His guileful father sent a knightly
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Speaker 1: spy the Grecian camp, and ordered to descry hard enterprise
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Speaker 1: and well he might require achilles, car and horses for
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Speaker 1: his hire. But met upon the scout. The Eetonian prince
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Speaker 1: in death bestowed a juster recompense. Fierce Turnus viewed the
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Speaker 1: trojan from Afar and launched his javelin from his lofty car. Then,
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Speaker 1: lightly leaping down, pursued the blow, and, pressing with his
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Speaker 1: foot his prostrate foe, wrenched from his feeble hold the
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Speaker 1: shining sword and plunged it in the bosom of its
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Speaker 1: lord possess, said he the root of all thy panes,
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Speaker 1: and measure at thy length our Latian plains. Thus are
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Speaker 1: my foes rewarded by my hand. Thus may they build
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Speaker 1: their town and thus enjoy the land. Then there is
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Speaker 1: Beatus Siberus. He slew whom o'er his neck is floundering
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Speaker 1: courser through as when loud Boreas with his blustering train,
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Speaker 1: stoops from above, incumbent on the main. Wherever he flies,
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Speaker 1: he drives the rack before and rolls the billows on
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Speaker 1: the Aegean shore. So where resistless Turnus takes his course
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Speaker 1: the scatter'd squadrons bend before his force. His crest of
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Speaker 1: horses hair is blown behind by adverse air and rustles
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Speaker 1: in the wind. This haughty Phoebius saw with high disdain,
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Speaker 1: And as the chariot rolled along the plain, light from
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Speaker 1: the ground, he leapt and sees the rain. Thus hung
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Speaker 1: in air, he still retain'd his hold. The coursers frighted
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Speaker 1: and their course controlled. The lance of Turnus reached him
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Speaker 1: as he hung and pierced his plated arms, but passed
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Speaker 1: along and only raised the skin. He turned and held
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Speaker 1: against his threatening foe his ample shield. Then call'd for aid,
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Speaker 1: But while he cried in vain, the chariot bore him backward.
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Speaker 1: On the plain. He lies reversed. The victor king descends
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Speaker 1: and strikes so justly where his helmet ends, he lops
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Speaker 1: his head. The Latian fields are drunk with streams that
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Speaker 1: issue from the bleeding trunk. While he triumphs, and while
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Speaker 1: the trojans yield, the wounded prince is forced to leave
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Speaker 1: the field. Strong menetsus and acades often tried, and young Ascanius,
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Speaker 1: weeping by his side, conduct him to his tent. Scarce
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Speaker 1: can he rear his limbs from the earth, Supported on
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Speaker 1: his sphere, resolved in mind, regardless of the smart he
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Speaker 1: tugs with both his hands and breaks the dart. The
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Speaker 1: steel remains no readier way he found to draw the
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Speaker 1: weapon than to enlarge the wound. Eager of fight, impatient
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Speaker 1: of delay, he begs and his unwilling friends obey Iapis
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Speaker 1: was at hand to prove his art. His blooming youth
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Speaker 1: so fired Apollo's heart that for his love he proffered
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Speaker 1: to bestow his tuneful harp and his unerring bow. The
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Speaker 1: pious youth, more studious how to save his aged sire,
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Speaker 1: now sinking to the grave, preferred the powers of plants
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Speaker 1: and silent praise of healing art. Before Phoebean bays propped
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Speaker 1: on his lance. The pensive heroes stood and heard, and saw,
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Speaker 1: unmoved the mourning crowd. The famed physician tucked his robes
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Speaker 1: around with ready hands, and hastens to the wound with
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Speaker 1: gentle touches. He performs his part this way and that,
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Speaker 1: soliciting the dart, and exercises all his heavenly art, all
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Speaker 1: softening simples known of sovereign use. He presses out and
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Speaker 1: pours their noble juice. Their first infuse to lenify the pain,
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Speaker 1: he tugs with pincers, but he tugs in vain. Then
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Speaker 1: to the patron of his art he prayed. The patron
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Speaker 1: of his art refused his aid. Meantime, the war approaches
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Speaker 1: to the tents. The alarm grows hotter, and the noise augments.
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Speaker 1: The driving dust proclaims the danger near. And first their
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Speaker 1: friends and then their foes appear. Their friends retreat, their
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Speaker 1: foes pursue the rear. The camp is filled with terror
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Speaker 1: and affright. The hissing shafts within the trench alight. An
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Speaker 1: undistinguished noise ascends the sky, the shouts those who kill,
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Speaker 1: and the groans of those who die. But now the
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Speaker 1: Goddess Mother, moved with grief and pierced with pity, hastens
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Speaker 1: her relief. A branch of healing dettany she brought, which
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Speaker 1: in the Cretan fields with care she sought rough as
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Speaker 1: the stern, which wooly leafs surround the leafs with flowers,
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Speaker 1: the flowers with purple crowned, well known to wounded goats,
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Speaker 1: a sure relief. To draw the pointed steel and eatse
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Speaker 1: the grief. This venus brings in clouds, involved and bruised
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Speaker 1: the extracted liquor with ambrosian dews and odorous pennas unseen.
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Speaker 1: She stands tempering the mixture with her heavenly hands, and
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Speaker 1: pours it in a bowl already crowned with juice of
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Speaker 1: medicinal herbs, prepared to bathe the wound. The leech unknowing
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Speaker 1: of superior art, which aids the cure. With this foments
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Speaker 1: the part, and in a moment sees the raging smart
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Speaker 1: stanched as the blood, and in the bottom stands the steel,
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Speaker 1: but scarcely touched with tender hands, moves up and follows
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Speaker 1: of its own accord, and health and vigor are at
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Speaker 1: once restored. Iapis first perceived the closing wound, and first
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Speaker 1: the footsteps of a god. He found arms, arms, He cries,
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Speaker 1: the sword and shield, prepare and send the willing chief, renewed,
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Speaker 1: to war. This is no mortal work, no cure of
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Speaker 1: mine nor art's effect, but done by hands divine, some God,
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Speaker 1: our general to the battle, sends some God preserved his
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Speaker 1: life for greater ends. The hero arms in haste, his
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Speaker 1: hands unfold his thighs with creaches of reflugent gold inflamed
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Speaker 1: to the fight, and rushing to the field that hand
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Speaker 1: sustaining the celestial's shield. This scripts the lance, and with
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Speaker 1: such vigor shakes that to the rest the beamy weapon quakes. Then,
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Speaker 1: with a close embrace, he strain'd his son, and kissing
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Speaker 1: through his helmet, Thus began my son, from my example,
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Speaker 1: learn the war, and camps to suffer, and in fields
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Speaker 1: to dare. But happier chance than mine attends thy care.
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Speaker 1: This day my hand, thy tender age, shall shield and
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Speaker 1: crowns with honor the of the conquered field. Thou and
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Speaker 1: thy riper years, send thee forth to toils of war.
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Speaker 1: Be mindful of my worth, assert thy birthright, and in
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Speaker 1: arms be known for Hector's nephew and Aeneas's son. He said,
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Speaker 1: and striding issued on the plain, Anteus and Mnestheus, and
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Speaker 1: a numerous train attend his steps. The rest their weapons take,
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Speaker 1: and crowding to the field the camp's forsake, a cloud
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Speaker 1: of blinding dust is raised around labors. Beneath their feet
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Speaker 1: the trembling ground. Now turnus. Posted on a hill from
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Speaker 1: far beheld the progress of the moving war. With him.
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Speaker 1: The Latins viewed the covered plains and the chill blood
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Speaker 1: run backwards in their veins. Jaturna saw the advancing troops appear,
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Speaker 1: and heard the hostile sound, and fled for fear. Aeneas
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Speaker 1: leads and draws a sweeping train, closed in their ranks
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Speaker 1: and pouring on the plain, as when a whirlwind rushing
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Speaker 1: to the shore from the mid ocean drives the waves.
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Speaker 1: Before the painful hind with heavy heart foresees the flatted
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Speaker 1: fields and slaughter of the trees with like impetuous rage.
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Speaker 1: The Prince appears before his doubled front, nor less destruction bears,
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Speaker 1: and now both armies shock an open field asiris is
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Speaker 1: by strong Thimbraeus killed archeetas euphans Epulon are slain, all
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Speaker 1: famed in arms, and of the Latian train by Gaius,
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Speaker 1: Menestheus and Akati's hand. The fatal augur falls by whose
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Speaker 1: command the truce was broken, and whose lance embrued with
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Speaker 1: Trojan blood. The unhappy fight renewed, loud shouts and clamors
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Speaker 1: rend the liquid sky and o'er the field. Frighted Latins fly.
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Speaker 1: The Prince disdains the dastards to pursue, nor moves to
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Speaker 1: meet up in arms. The fighting few turnus alone amid
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Speaker 1: the dusky plain he seeks, and to the combat calls
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Speaker 1: in vain. Jaturna heard and seized with mortal fear. Forced
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Speaker 1: from the beam, her brother's charioteer assumes his shape, his armor,
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Speaker 1: and his mien, and like Mestiscus, in his seat is seen.
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Speaker 1: End of Book twelve, Part one recording by David Lipa,
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