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Speaker 1: Book twelve, Part two of the Eneid. This is a
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Speaker 1: Recording by David Lipa. The Eneid by Virgil, translated by
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Speaker 1: John Dryden, Book twelve, The Fortunes of War, Part two.
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Speaker 1: As the black swallows near the palace, plies o'er empty
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Speaker 1: courts and under arches, flies now hawks aloft. Now skims
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Speaker 1: along the flood to furnish her loquacious nest with food.
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Speaker 1: So drives the rapid goddess over the plains. The smoking
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Speaker 1: horses run with loosened reins. She steers a various course
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Speaker 1: among the foes. Now here, now there her conquering brother
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Speaker 1: shows now with a straight now with a wheeling flight.
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Speaker 1: She turns and bends, but shuns the single fight. Aneas
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Speaker 1: fired with fury, breaks the crowd and seeks his foe
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Speaker 1: and calls by name aloud. He runs within a narrower
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Speaker 1: ring and tries to stop the chariot, but the chariot flies.
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Speaker 1: If he but gain a glimpse, Jaturna fears and far
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Speaker 1: away the Danian hero bears, What should he do, nor arts,
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Speaker 1: nor arms, avail and various cares in vain his mind
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Speaker 1: assail the great Messapus, thundering through the field in his
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Speaker 1: left hand, two pointed javelins held, encountering on the prince.
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Speaker 1: One dart he drew, and with unerring aim and utmost
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Speaker 1: vigor through aneas saw it come, and, stooping low beneath
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Speaker 1: his buckler, shunned the threatening blow. The weapon hissed above
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Speaker 1: his head and tore the wavering plume which on his
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Speaker 1: helm he wore, forced by this hostile act, and fired
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Speaker 1: with spite that flying Turnus still declin'd the fight. The Prince,
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Speaker 1: whose piety had long repelled his inborn ardor, now invades
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Speaker 1: the field, invokes the powers of violated peace, their rights
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Speaker 1: and injured altars to redress. Then to his rage, abandoning
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Speaker 1: the rain with blood and slaughtered bodies fills the plain.
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Speaker 1: What God can tell, what numbers can display the various
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Speaker 1: labors of that fatal day. What chiefs and champions fell
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Speaker 1: on either side in combat, slain or by what deaths
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Speaker 1: they died? Whom Turnus, whom the Trojan hero killed, Who
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Speaker 1: shared the fame and fortune of the field Jove couldst
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Speaker 1: thou view, and not avert thy sight. Two jarring nations
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Speaker 1: joined in cruel fight, whom leagues of lasting love, so
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Speaker 1: shortly shall unite Aeneas First Rutulian Sucro found, whose valor
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Speaker 1: made the Trojans quit the ground. Betwixt his ribs. The
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Speaker 1: Javland drove so just it reached his heart. Nor needs
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Speaker 1: a second thrust. Now Turnus at two blows two brethren slew.
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Speaker 1: First from his horse, fierce Amycus, he threw, Then, leaping
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Speaker 1: on the ground on foot, assailed Diorus, and in equal fight,
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Speaker 1: prevailed their lifeless trunks. He leaves upon the place, their heads,
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Speaker 1: distilling gore his chariot grace. Three cold on earth the
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Speaker 1: Trojan hero threw, whom without respite at one charge he
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Speaker 1: threw Cathagus Tenius Tagus fell oppressed, and sad anythes added
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Speaker 1: to the rest of theban blood whom Paridia bore. Turnus
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Speaker 1: two brothers from the Lycian's shore and from Apollo's fane
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Speaker 1: to battle scent overthrew nor Phoebus. Could their fate prevent
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Speaker 1: peaceful Menothees. After these he killed, who long had shunned
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Speaker 1: the dangers of the field on Lerna's Lake. A silent
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Speaker 1: life he led, and with his nets and angle, earned
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Speaker 1: his bread, nor pompous cares, nor palace as he knew,
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Speaker 1: but wisely from the infectious world. Withdrew poor was his house,
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Speaker 1: his father's painful hand, discharged his rent and plowed another's land.
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Speaker 1: As flames along the lofty woods are thrown on different sides,
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Speaker 1: in both by winds are blown. The laurels crackle in
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Speaker 1: the sputtering fire. The frightened Sylvans from their shades retire,
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Speaker 1: where as two neighboring Torrents fall from the sky rapid
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Speaker 1: they run, the foamy waters fry. They rolled to the
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Speaker 1: sea with unresisted force, and down the rocks precipitate their course.
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Speaker 1: Not with less rage. The rival heroes take their different ways,
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Speaker 1: nor less destruction make with spears afar, with swords at hand,
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Speaker 1: they strike, and zeal of slaughter fires their souls alike
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Speaker 1: like them, their dauntless men maintain the field, and hearts
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Speaker 1: are pierced. Unknowing how to yield, they blow for blow,
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Speaker 1: return and wound for wound, and heaps of bodies raised
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Speaker 1: the level ground. Maranus, boasting of his blood that springs
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Speaker 1: from a long royal race of Latian kings is by
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Speaker 1: the Trojan from his chariot throne. Crushed with the weight
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Speaker 1: of an unwieldy stone betwixt the wheels, he fell, the
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Speaker 1: wheels that bore his living load. His dying body tore
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Speaker 1: his starting steeds to shun the glitt'ring sword pawed down
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Speaker 1: his trampled limbs. Forgetful of their lord. Fierce Hylas, threatened
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Speaker 1: high and face to face, affronted Turnus in the middle space.
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Speaker 1: The prince encountered him in full career, and at his
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Speaker 1: temples aimed the deadly spear. So fatally the flying weapon
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Speaker 1: sped that through his helmet pierced his head. Norsissius could
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Speaker 1: escape from Turna's hand in vain, the strongest of the
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Speaker 1: Arcadian band. Nor to Capentus could his gods afford availing
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Speaker 1: against the sword, which, to his naked heart pursued the course,
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Speaker 1: Nor could his plated shield sustain the force. Iolas fell,
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Speaker 1: whom not the Grecian powers nor great subverter of the
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Speaker 1: Trojan towers were doomed to kill while heaven prolonged his date.
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Speaker 1: But who can pass the bounds prefixed by fate and
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Speaker 1: high Leernesis. And in Troy he held two palaces, and
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Speaker 1: was from each expelled of all the mighty man. The
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Speaker 1: last remains a little spot of foreign earth contains, and
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Speaker 1: now both hosts their broken troops unite in equal ranks
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Speaker 1: and mix in mortal fight. Sereesthus and undaunted Menetesus joined
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Speaker 1: the Trojan, Tuscan and Arcadian line. Sea born Messapus with
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Speaker 1: Atanus heads the Latin squadrons and to battle leads. They strike,
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Speaker 1: they push, They thronged the scanty space, resolved on death,
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Speaker 1: impatient of disgrace, and where one falls, another fills his place.
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Speaker 1: The Cyprian goddess now inspires her son to leave the
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Speaker 1: unfinished fight and storm the town. For while he rolls
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Speaker 1: his eyes around the plain in quest of Turnus, whom
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Speaker 1: he seeks in vain. He views the unguarded city from afar,
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Speaker 1: in careless quiet and secure of war. Occasion offers and
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Speaker 1: excites his mind to dare beyond the task he first designed. Resolved,
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Speaker 1: he calls his chiefs. They leave the fight attended. Thus
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Speaker 1: he takes a neighboring height. The crowding troops about their
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Speaker 1: general stand all under arms and wait his high command.
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Speaker 1: Then thus the lofty prince hear and obey ye trojan
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Speaker 1: bands without the least delay. Jove is with us, and
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Speaker 1: what I have decreed requires our utmost vigor and our speed.
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Speaker 1: Your instant arms against the town prepare the source of
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Speaker 1: mischief and the seat of war. Or this day the
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Speaker 1: latian towers that mate the sky shall level with the
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Speaker 1: plane in ashes lie. The people shall be slaves unless
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Speaker 1: in their time they kneel for pardon and repent their crime.
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Speaker 1: Twice have our foes been vanquished on the plane. Then
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Speaker 1: shall I wait till turnus will be slain. Your force
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Speaker 1: against the perjured city bend there it began, and there
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Speaker 1: the war shall end. The peace profaned, our rightful arms
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Speaker 1: requires cleanse the polluted place with purging fires. He finished,
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Speaker 1: and one soul inspiring, all formed in a wedge. The
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Speaker 1: foot approached the wall without the town an unprovided train
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Speaker 1: of gaping gazing citizens are slain. Some firebrands, other scaling
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Speaker 1: ladders bear, and those they toss aloft, and these they rear.
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Speaker 1: The flames now launched, the feathered arrows fly, and clouds
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Speaker 1: of missive arms obscure the sky advancing to the front,
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Speaker 1: the hero stands and, stretching out to heaven his pious hands,
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Speaker 1: attests the gods, asserts his innocence, upbraids with breach of faith.
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Speaker 1: Usonian Prince declares the royal honor doubly stained, and twice
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Speaker 1: the rites of holy Peace profaned. Dissenting clamors in the
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Speaker 1: town arise. Each will be heard, and all at once advise,
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Speaker 1: one part for peace, one for war. Contends, some would
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Speaker 1: exclude their foes, and some admit their friends. The helpless
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Speaker 1: king is hurried in the throng, and whatever the tide
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Speaker 1: prevails is borne along. Thus, when the swain within a
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Speaker 1: hollow rock invades the bees with suffocating smoke, they run
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Speaker 1: around or labor on their wings, disused to flight, and
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Speaker 1: shoot their sleepy stings to shun the bitter fumes. In vain,
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Speaker 1: they try. Black vapors issuing from the vent involve the sky,
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Speaker 1: But faith and envious fortune now prepare to plunge the latins.
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Speaker 1: In the last despair, the queen, who saw the foes
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Speaker 1: invade the town and brands on top of burning houses
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Speaker 1: thrown cast round, her eyes distracted with her fear. No
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Speaker 1: troops of turnus in the field appear once more. She
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Speaker 1: stares abroad, but still in vain, and then concludes the
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Speaker 1: royal youth is slain. Mad with her anguish, impotent to
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Speaker 1: bear the mighty grief, she loathes the vital air. She
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Speaker 1: calls herself the cause of all this ill, and owns
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Speaker 1: the dire effects of her ungoverned will. She raves against
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Speaker 1: the gods. She beats her breast, She tears with both
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Speaker 1: her hands her purple vests, then round a beam a
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Speaker 1: running noose she tied and fastened by the neck obscenely
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Speaker 1: died soon as the fatal news by fame was blown.
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Speaker 1: And to her dames and to her daughter known the
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Speaker 1: sad Lavinia rends her yellow hair and rosy cheeks. The
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Speaker 1: rest her sorrow's share with shrieks. The palace rings, and
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Speaker 1: madness of despair. The spreading rumor fills the public place. Confusion, fear, distraction,
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Speaker 1: and disgrace and silent shame are seen in every face.
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Speaker 1: Latinus tears his garments as he goes, both for his
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Speaker 1: public and his private woes. With filth. His venerable beard besmears,
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Speaker 1: and swordid dust deforms his silver hairs, and much he
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Speaker 1: blames the softness of his mind, obnoxious to the charms
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Speaker 1: of womankind, and soon seduced to change what he so
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Speaker 1: well designed to break the solemn league, so long desired,
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Speaker 1: nor finish what his fates and those of Troy required.
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Speaker 1: Now turnus rolls aloof o'er empty planes, and here and
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Speaker 1: there some struggling foes. He gleans his flying coursers please him,
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Speaker 1: less and less, ashamed of easy fight and cheap success.
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Speaker 1: Thus half contented, anxious in his mind, the distant cries come,
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Speaker 1: driving in the wind, shouts from the walls, but shouts
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Speaker 1: and murmurs drowned, a jarring mixture and aboding sound. Alas
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Speaker 1: that he, what mean these dismal cries? What doleful clamors
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Speaker 1: from the town arise? Confused, he stops and backward pulls
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Speaker 1: the reins. She who the driver's office now sustains, replies, neglect,
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Speaker 1: my lord, these new alarms here fight and urge the
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Speaker 1: fortune of your arms. There, want not others to defend
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Speaker 1: the wall. If by your rival's hand the Italians fall,
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Speaker 1: so shall your fatal sword his friends oppress and honor
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Speaker 1: equal equal in success to this. The Prince o sister
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Speaker 1: for I knew the peace infringed proceeded first from you.
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Speaker 1: I knew you when you mingled, first in fight, and
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Speaker 1: now in vain. You would deceive my sight? Why Goddess,
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Speaker 1: this unprofitable care, who sent you down from heaven involved
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Speaker 1: in air your share of mortal sorrows to sustain and
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Speaker 1: see your brother bleeding on the plain? For to what
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Speaker 1: power can tern us have recourse? Or how resist his
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Speaker 1: fate's prevailing force? These eyes beheld Moranus bite the ground,
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Speaker 1: mighty the man, and mighty was the wound. I heard
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Speaker 1: my dearest friend, with dying breath my name, invoking to
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Speaker 1: revenge his death. Brave euphuns fell with honor on the place,
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Speaker 1: to shun the shameful sight of my disgrace. On Earth's supine,
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Speaker 1: A manly corpse, he lies, his vest and armor are
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Speaker 1: the victor's prize. Then shall I see Laurentum in a
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Speaker 1: flame which only wanteth to complete my shame? How will
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Speaker 1: the latins hoot their champion's flight? How drances will insult
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Speaker 1: and point them to the sight? Is death so hard
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Speaker 1: to bear? Ye, gods below? Since those above so small
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Speaker 1: compassion show receive a soul unsullied yet with shame which
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Speaker 1: not belies my great forefather's name, he said, And while
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Speaker 1: he spoke, with flying speed, came Sages, urging on his
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Speaker 1: foamy steed, fixed on his wound, did face the shaft
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Speaker 1: he bore, and seeking turnus and his voice before turnus
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Speaker 1: on you. On you alone depends our last relief. Compassionate
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Speaker 1: your friends. Like lightning, fierce Aneas, rolling on with arms
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Speaker 1: and vests with flames, invades the town. The brands are
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Speaker 1: tossed on high, The winds conspire to drive along the
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Speaker 1: daluge of the fire. All eyes are fixed on you.
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Speaker 1: Your foes rejoice. Even the king's staggers and suspends his choice,
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Speaker 1: doubts to deliver or defend the town, Whom to reject,
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Speaker 1: or whom to call his son, the queen on whom
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Speaker 1: your utmost hopes were placed her self suborning death has
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Speaker 1: breathed her last. Tis true Missapas, fearless of his fate,
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Speaker 1: with fears, a tenus aide defends the gait on every side,
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Speaker 1: surrounded by the foe. The more they kill, the greater
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Speaker 1: numbers grow. An iron harvest mounts and still remains to
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Speaker 1: mow you far aloof from your forsaken bands, your rolling
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Speaker 1: chariot drive over empty stupid, he sate, his eyes on death,
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Speaker 1: declined and various cares revolving in his mind, rage boiling
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Speaker 1: from the bottom of his heart, and sorrow mixed with shame.
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Speaker 1: His soul oppressed and conscious worth lay laboring in his thought,
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Speaker 1: and love by jealousy to madness wrought by slow degrees,
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Speaker 1: his reason drove away the mists of passion and resumed
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Speaker 1: her sway. Then, rising on his car, he turned his
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Speaker 1: look and saw the town involved in fire and smoke,
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Speaker 1: a wooden tower with flames already blazed, which his own
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Speaker 1: hands on, beams and rafters raised, and bridges laid above
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Speaker 1: to join the space and wheels below to roll from
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Speaker 1: place to place. Sister, the fates have vanquished. Let us
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Speaker 1: go the way which heaven and my hard fortunes show
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Speaker 1: the fight is fixed. Nor shall the branded name of
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Speaker 1: a base coward blot your brother's fame. Death is my choice.
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Speaker 1: But suffer me to try my force and vent my
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Speaker 1: rage before I die, he said, and, leaping down without
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Speaker 1: delay through crowds of scattered foes, he freed his way.
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Speaker 1: Striding he passed, impetuous as the wind and left the
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Speaker 1: grieving goddess far behind. As when a fragment from a
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Speaker 1: mountain torn by raging tempests or by torrents, born or
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Speaker 1: sapped by time, or loosed from the roots, prone through
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Speaker 1: the void, the rocky ruined shoots, rolling from crag to crag,
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Speaker 1: from steep to steep, down sink at once. The shepherds
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Speaker 1: and their sheep involved alike, they rush to nether ground.
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Speaker 1: Stunned with the shock, they fall, and stunned from earth rebound.
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Speaker 1: So turnus, hasting headlong into town, shouldering and shoving, bore
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Speaker 1: the squadrons down. Still pressing onwards to the wall, he drew,
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Speaker 1: where shafts and spears and darts, promiscuous flew and sanguine
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Speaker 1: streams the slippery ground and brew first. Stretching out his
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Speaker 1: arm in sign of peace, he cries aloud to make
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Speaker 1: the combat cease. Rutulians hold, and Latin troops retire. The
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Speaker 1: fight is mine and me. The gods require tis just
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Speaker 1: that I should vindicate alone the broken truce, or for
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Speaker 1: the breach atone this day shall free from war or
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Speaker 1: as the Asonian state, or finish my misfortunes in my fate.
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Speaker 1: Both armies from their bloody work, desist and bearing backwards
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Speaker 1: form a spacious list. The Trojan hero, who received from
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Speaker 1: fame the welcome sound and heard the champion's name, soon
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Speaker 1: leaves the taken works and mounted walls, greedy of war,
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Speaker 1: where the greater glory calls, he springs to fight, exulting
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Speaker 1: in his force. His jointed armor rattles in the course.
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Speaker 1: Like Eychs, or like Athos great, he shows or Father Eponine,
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Speaker 1: when white with snows, his head divine, obscure in clouds,
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Speaker 1: he hides and shakes the sounding forests on his sides.
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Speaker 1: The nations, over awed, succrease the fight, immovable, their bodies
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Speaker 1: fix their sight. Even death stands still. Nor from above
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Speaker 1: they throw their darts, nor drive their battering rams below
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Speaker 1: in silent order. Either army stands and drop their swords,
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Speaker 1: unknowing from their hands. The Ausonian king beholds with wondering sight,
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Speaker 1: two mighty champions matched in single fight, borne under climes,
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Speaker 1: remote and brought by fate with swords to try their
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Speaker 1: titles to the state. Now inclosed field each other. From afar,
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Speaker 1: they view, and, rushing on begin the war. They launch
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Speaker 1: their spears, then hand to hand they meet. The trembling
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Speaker 1: soil resounds beneath their feet. Their bucklers clash, their blows
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Speaker 1: descend from high, and flakes of fire from their hard
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Speaker 1: helmets fly. Courage conspires with chance, and both engage with
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Speaker 1: equal fortunes, yet and mutual rage, as when two bulls
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Speaker 1: for their fair female fight in Sila's shades or on
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Speaker 1: Tibernus's height with horns. Adverse, they meet the keeper flies
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Speaker 1: mute stands the herd. Their heifers rou their eyes and
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Speaker 1: wait the event, which victor they shall bear, and who
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Speaker 1: shall be the lord to rule the lusty year? With
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Speaker 1: rage of love, the jealous rivals burn and push for push,
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Speaker 1: and wound for wound return their dew laps scored, Their
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Speaker 1: sides are laughed in blood, loud cries and roaring sounds
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Speaker 1: rebello through the wood. Such was the combat in the
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Speaker 1: listed ground. So clashed their swords, and so their shields resound.
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Speaker 1: Jove sets the beam in either scale. He lays the
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Speaker 1: champion's fate, and each exactly weighs. On this side, life
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Speaker 1: and lucky chance ascends, loaded with death. That other scale
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Speaker 1: descends raised on the stretch, Young Turnus aims a blow
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Speaker 1: full on the helm of his unguarded foe. Shrill shouts
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Speaker 1: and clamors ring on either side, as hopes and fears
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Speaker 1: their panting hearts divide, but all in pieces flies the
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Speaker 1: traitor's sword, and in the middle stroke deserts his lord
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Speaker 1: now is but death or flight. Disarm'd. He flies when
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Speaker 1: in his hand an unknown hilt, he spies. Fame says
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Speaker 1: that turnus. When his steeds he join'd, hurrying to war,
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Speaker 1: disordered in his mind, snatched the first weapon which his
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Speaker 1: haste could find. Tis not the faded sword his father bore,
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Speaker 1: but that his charioteer mesticus war this while the Trojans fled,
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Speaker 1: The toughness held but vain against the great Volcanian shield.
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Speaker 1: The mortal, tempered steel deceived his hand, the shiver'd fragments
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Speaker 1: shone amid the sand. Surprised with fear, he fled along
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Speaker 1: the field, and now forthright and now in orbits wheel'd
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Speaker 1: for here the Trojan troops the lists surround, and there
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Speaker 1: the pass is closed with pools and marshy ground. Aeneas hastens,
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Speaker 1: though with heavier pace, his wounds so newly knit, retards
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Speaker 1: the chase and oft his trembling knees, their aid refuse,
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Speaker 1: yet pressing foot by foot, his foe pursues. Thus, when
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Speaker 1: a fearful stag is closed around with crimson toils, or
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Speaker 1: in a river found high on the bank, the deep
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Speaker 1: mouthed hound appears still opening, following still wherever he steers,
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Speaker 1: the persecuted creature to and fro turns here and there
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Speaker 1: to escape his Umbrian foe. Steep is the ascent, and
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Speaker 1: if he gains the land, the purple death is pitched
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Speaker 1: along the strand. His eager foe, determined to the chase,
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Speaker 1: stretch'd at his length, gains ground at every pace. Now
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Speaker 1: to his balmy head, he makes his way, and now
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Speaker 1: he holds, or thinks he holds his prey. Just at
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Speaker 1: the pitch, the stag springs out with fear. He bites
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Speaker 1: the wind and fills his sounding jaws with air. The rocks,
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Speaker 1: the lakes, the meadow ring with cries. The mortal tumult
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Speaker 1: mounts and thunders in the skies. Thus flies the Daenian prince,
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Speaker 1: and flying blames his tardy troops, calling by their names,
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Speaker 1: demands his trusty sword. The trojan threats the realm of
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Speaker 1: Ruin and their ancient seats to lay in ashes if
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Speaker 1: they dare supply with arms or aid his vanquished enemy.
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Speaker 1: Thus menacing, he still pursues the course with vigor, though
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Speaker 1: diminished of his force ten times already the listed place
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Speaker 1: when chief has fled and the other given chase, no
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Speaker 1: trivial prize is played for on the life or death
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Speaker 1: of Turnus now depends the strife within the space. An
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Speaker 1: olive tree had stood a sacred shade, a venerable wood
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Speaker 1: for vows to fawnace pay the Latin's guardian god. Here
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Speaker 1: hung the vests and tablets were engraved of sinking mariners
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Speaker 1: from shipwrecked save with heeds his hands. The trojans felled
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Speaker 1: the tree to make the ground enclos'd for combat free
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Speaker 1: deep in the root, Whether by fate or chance or
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Speaker 1: erring haste, the trojan drove his lance, then stooped and
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Speaker 1: tugg'd with force immense to free the encumber'd spear from
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Speaker 1: the tenacious tree, that whom his fainting limbs pursued in vain.
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Speaker 1: His flying weapon might from far attain confused with fear,
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Speaker 1: bereft of human aid. Then turn us to the gods,
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Speaker 1: and first to fawnas pray'd o fawnas pity, and thou
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Speaker 1: Mother Earth, where I thy foster son received my birth,
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Speaker 1: hold fast the steel. If my religious hand your plant
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Speaker 1: has honor'd, which her foes profan'd propitious here my prayers,
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Speaker 1: he said, Nor would successless vows invoke their aid. The
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Speaker 1: incumbent hero wrench'd and pull'd and strain'd, but still the
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Speaker 1: stubborn Earth the steel detain'd. Jaturna took her time, and
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Speaker 1: while in vain, he assumed meticus form again, and in
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Speaker 1: that imitated shape, restored the despairing prince his Danian's sword.
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Speaker 1: The Queen of Love, who with disdain and grief saw
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Speaker 1: the bold nymph afford this prompt relief to assert her
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Speaker 1: offspring with a greater deed. From the tough root of
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Speaker 1: the lingering weapon, freed once more erect, the rival chiefs advance,
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Speaker 1: one trusts the sword, the other the pointed lance, and
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Speaker 1: both resolved alike to try their fatal chance. Meantime, Imperial
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Speaker 1: Jove to Juno speak, who from a shining cloud beheld
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Speaker 1: the shock what new arrest O, Queen of Heaven is
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Speaker 1: sent to stop the fates now laboring in the event,
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Speaker 1: What farther hopes are left THEE to pursue divine aeneas,
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Speaker 1: and thou, who knows it too, fore doomed to these
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Speaker 1: celestial seaerdue, What more attempts for turnus can be made
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Speaker 1: that this thou lingerest in this lonely shade? Is it
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Speaker 1: the coming of the due respect and awful honor of
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Speaker 1: a god? Elect a wound unworthy of our state to
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Speaker 1: feel patient of human hands and earthly steel, or seems
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Speaker 1: adjust the sister should restore a second sword when one
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Speaker 1: was lost before, and arm a conquer'd wretch against his
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Speaker 1: conqueror for what without thy knowledge? And avow nay more
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Speaker 1: thy dictate durst to turn Ado at last, in deference
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Speaker 1: to my love forbear to lodge within thy soul. This
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Speaker 1: anxious care reclin'd upon thy breast, Thy grief unload. Who
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Speaker 1: should relieve the goddess? But the God now all things
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Speaker 1: to their utmost issue tend push'd by the fates to
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Speaker 1: their appointed, While leave was given THEE, and a lawful
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Speaker 1: hour for vengeance, wrath and unresisted power toss'd on the seas,
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Speaker 1: Thou could thy foes distress and driven ashore with hostile arms, oppress,
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Speaker 1: deform the royal house, and from the side of the
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Speaker 1: just bridegroom tear the plighted bride. Now cease at my command,
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Speaker 1: the thunderer said, And with dejected eyes this answered, Juno
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Speaker 1: made because your dread decree too well. I knew from
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Speaker 1: turnus and from Earth. Unwilling I withdrew else should you
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Speaker 1: not behold me here alone? Involved in empty clouds my
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Speaker 1: friends bemoan, but girt with vengeful flames in open sight,
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Speaker 1: engag'd against my foes in mortal fight. Tis true, Jaturna
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Speaker 1: mingled in the strife by my command to save her
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Speaker 1: brother's life at least a try, But by the Stygian lake,
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Speaker 1: the most religious oath the gods can take. With this restriction,
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Speaker 1: not to bend the bow, or toss the spear, or
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Speaker 1: trembling dart to throw, and now resign to your superior might.
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Speaker 1: And tired with fruitless toils, I loathe the fight. This
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Speaker 1: let me beg and this no fates withstand, both for
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Speaker 1: myself and for your father's land, that when the nuptial
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Speaker 1: bed shall bind the peace which I, since you ordain,
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Speaker 1: consent to bless the laws of either nation be the same.
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Speaker 1: But let the Latins still retain their name, speak the
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Speaker 1: same language which they spoke before, where the same habits
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Speaker 1: which their grandsires wore call them not Trojans. Perish the
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Speaker 1: renown and name of Troy with that detested town Latium
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Speaker 1: be Latium still, Let Alba reign and Rome's immortal majesty remain. Then,
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Speaker 1: Thus the founder of mankind replies, unruffled, was his front serene?
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Speaker 1: His eyes can Saturn's issue and Heaven's other heir, such
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Speaker 1: endless anger in her bosom, Bear be, mistress, and your
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Speaker 1: full desires obtained, but quenched the collar you foment in
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Speaker 1: vain from ancient blome blood. The Asonian people sprung shall
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Speaker 1: keep their name, their habit, and their tongue. The Trojans
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Speaker 1: to their customs shall be tied. I will myself their
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Speaker 1: common rights provide. The natives shall command the foreigners subside.
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Speaker 1: All shall be Latium, Troy without a name, and her
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Speaker 1: lost sons forget from whence they came from blood so
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Speaker 1: mixed a pious race shall flow equal to gods, excelling
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Speaker 1: all below. No nation more respect to you shall pay,
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Speaker 1: or greater offerings on your altars lay Juno consents well
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Speaker 1: please that her desires had found success, and from the
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Speaker 1: cloud retires the peace thus made, the thunder or next
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Speaker 1: prepares to force the watery goddess from the wars. Deep
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Speaker 1: in the dismal regions, void of light, three daughters at
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Speaker 1: a birth were born tonight. These their brown mother, brooding
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Speaker 1: on her care, endued with windy wings, to flit an
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Speaker 1: air with serpents girt alike, and crowned with hissing hair.
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Speaker 1: In heaven the dray call'd, and still at hand before
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Speaker 1: the throne of angry Jove, they stand his ministers of wrath,
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Speaker 1: and ready still the minds of mortal men with fears
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Speaker 1: to fill. Whenever the moody sire to wreak his hate
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Speaker 1: on realms or towns deserving of their fate, hurls down diseases,
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Speaker 1: death and deadly care, and terrifies the guilty world with
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Speaker 1: war one sister plague. If these from heaven he sent
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Speaker 1: to fright turna with a dire portent, the pest comes
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Speaker 1: whirling down by far more slow springs. The swift arrow
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Speaker 1: from the parthen Bau or side on you when traversing
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Speaker 1: the skies and drenched in poisonous juice, the sure destruction
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Speaker 1: flies with such a sudden and unseen a flight shot
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Speaker 1: through the clouds, the dog of the night. Soon as
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Speaker 1: the field enclosed, she had in view, and from afar
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Speaker 1: her destined quarry knew. Contracted to the boding bird, she turns,
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Speaker 1: which haunts the ruined piles and hallowed urns, and beats
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Speaker 1: about the tombs with knightly wings, where songs obscene on
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Speaker 1: seffultures she sings, Thus, lessened in her form, with frightful cries.
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Speaker 1: The fury round unhappy Turnus flies flaps on his shield
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Speaker 1: and flutters o'er his eyes. A lazy chillness crept along
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Speaker 1: his blood, choked was his voice, his hair. With horror
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Speaker 1: stood Jaturna from Afar beheld her fly and knew the
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Speaker 1: ill omen by her screaming cry and strider of her wings.
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Speaker 1: Amazed with fear her beauteous breast, she beat and rent
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Speaker 1: her flowing hair. Ah me, she cries, in this unequal strife,
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Speaker 1: What can my sister more to save thy life? Weak
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Speaker 1: as I am, can I alas contend in arms with
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Speaker 1: that inexorable fiend. Now now I quit the field forbear
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Speaker 1: to fright my tender soul. Ye, baleful birds of night,
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Speaker 1: the lashing of your wings I know too well, the
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Speaker 1: sounding flight and funeral screams of hell. These are the
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Speaker 1: gifts you bring from haughty Jove, the worthy recompense of
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Speaker 1: my ravish love. Did he for this exempt my life
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Speaker 1: from fate? Oh, hard conditions of immortal state? Though born
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Speaker 1: to death, not privilege to die, but forced to bear
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Speaker 1: imposed eternity. Take back your envious bribes and let me
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Speaker 1: go compang into my brother's ghosts. Below. The joys are vanish'd.
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Speaker 1: Nothing now remains of life immortal but immortal pains. What
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Speaker 1: earth will open her devouring womb to rest a weary
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Speaker 1: goddess in the tomb, she drew a length of sighs.
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Speaker 1: Nor more, she said, but in her azure mantle wrapped
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Speaker 1: her head. Then plunged into her stream with a deep despair,
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Speaker 1: and her last sobs came bubbling up in air. Now
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Speaker 1: stern aeneas his weighty spear against his foe, and thus
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Speaker 1: upbraids his fear. What farther subterfuge can urnus find? What
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Speaker 1: empty hopes are harbor'd in his mind? Tis not thy
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Speaker 1: swiftness can secure thy flight, nor with their feet but hands.
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Speaker 1: The valiant fight fary thy shape in thousand forms, and
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Speaker 1: dare what skill and courage can attempt in war? Wish
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Speaker 1: for the wings of winds to mount the sky, or
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Speaker 1: hid within the hollow earth to lie. The champion shook
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Speaker 1: his head and made this short reply, No threats of thine,
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Speaker 1: my manly mind can move tis hostile heaven, I dread
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Speaker 1: and partial jove. He said no more, but with a sigh,
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Speaker 1: repressed the mighty sorrow in his swelling breast. Then, as
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Speaker 1: he rolled his troubled eyes around an antique stone, he
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Speaker 1: saw the common bound of neighboring fields and barrier of
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Speaker 1: the ground so vast that twelve strong men of modern
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Speaker 1: days the enormous weight from earth could hardly raise. He
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Speaker 1: heaved it at a lift and poised on high ran,
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Speaker 1: staggering on his enemy, but so disordered that he scarcely
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Speaker 1: knew his way or what unwieldy weight he threw. His
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Speaker 1: knocking knees are bent beneath the load, and shivering cold
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Speaker 1: congeals his vital blood. The stone drops from his arms, and,
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Speaker 1: falling short for want of vigor, mocks his vain effort
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Speaker 1: and as when a heavy sleep has closed the sight.
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Speaker 1: The sickly fancied labors in the night we seem to run,
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Speaker 1: and destitute of force, our sinking limbs forsake us in
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Speaker 1: the course. In vain we heave, for in vain we cry.
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Speaker 1: The nerves embrace their usual strength, deny, and on the
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Speaker 1: tongue the faltering accents die. So turnus fared, whatever means,
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Speaker 1: He tried all force of arms and points of art,
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Speaker 1: employed the fury, flew athwart, and made the endeavor void
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Speaker 1: a thousand various thoughts, his soul confound, he started about,
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Speaker 1: nor aid nor issue, found his own men stop to pass,
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Speaker 1: and his own wall surround. Once more, He pauses and
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Speaker 1: looks out again, and seeks the goddess charioteer. In vain, trembling,
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Speaker 1: he views the thundering chief advance and brandishing aloft the
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Speaker 1: deadly lance. Amazed, he cowers beneath the conquering foe, forgets
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Speaker 1: to ward and waits the coming blow, Astonished. While he
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Speaker 1: stands and fixed with fear, aim'd at his shield, he
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Speaker 1: sees the impending spear. The hero measured first with near
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Speaker 1: view the destined mark, and rising as he threw with
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Speaker 1: its full swing, the fatal weapon flew not with less rage.
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Speaker 1: The rattling thunder falls, or stones from battering engines break
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Speaker 1: the walls, swift as a whirlwind from an arm so
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Speaker 1: strong the lance drove on and bore the death along.
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Speaker 1: Not could his sevenfold shield the prince of veil, nor
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Speaker 1: aught beneath his arms the coat of mail. It pierced
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Speaker 1: through all, and with a grisly wound, transfixed his thigh
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Speaker 1: and doubled him to ground. With groans, the Latins rend
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Speaker 1: the vaulted sky woods, hills and valleys to the voice, reply,
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Speaker 1: Now low on earth, the lofty chief is laid, and
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Speaker 1: with eyes cast upward, and with arms displayed and recreant.
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Speaker 1: Thus to the proud victor prayed, I know my death deserved,
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Speaker 1: nor hope to live. Use what the gods and thy
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Speaker 1: good fortune give. Yet think O, think, if mercy may
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Speaker 1: be shown. Thou hadst a father once and hast a son.
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Speaker 1: Pity my sire now sinking to the grave, And for
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Speaker 1: Anchis's sake, Old Daanis save. Or if thy vowed revenge
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Speaker 1: pursue my death, give to my friends my body void
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Speaker 1: of breath. The Latian chiefs have seen me beg my life.
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Speaker 1: Thine is the conquest, Thine the royal wife against the
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Speaker 1: yielded man tis mean, ignoble strife and deep suspense. The
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Speaker 1: Trojans seemed to stand and just prepared to strike. Repressed
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Speaker 1: his hand. He rolled his eyes, and every moment felt
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Speaker 1: his manly soul with more compassion melt. When casting down
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Speaker 1: a casual glance, he spied the golden belt that glitter'd
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Speaker 1: on his side, the fatal spoils which haughty turnus tore
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Speaker 1: from dying palace, and in triumph war then roused anew
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Speaker 1: to wrath. He loudly cries. Flames while he spoke came
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Speaker 1: flashing from his eyes. Traitor, dost thou, dost thou to grace,
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Speaker 1: pretend clad as thou art in trophies of my friend,
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Speaker 1: to his sad soul, a grateful offering, go to his palace.
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Speaker 1: Palace gives this deadly blow. He raised his arm aloft,
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Speaker 1: and at the word deep in his bosom, drove the
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Speaker 1: shining sword. The streaming blood disdained his arms around, and
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Speaker 1: the disdainful soul came rushing through the wound. End of
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Speaker 1: Book twelve. End of the Eneid by Virgil translated by
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Speaker 1: John Dryden, Recording by David Lipa, San Francisco, California,