At pius Aeneas, quamquam lenire dolentem
solando cupit et dictis avertere curas,
395multa gemens magnoque animum labefactus amore,
iussa tamen divom exsequitur, classemque revisit.
Tum vero Teucri incumbunt, et litore celsas
deducunt toto naves: natat uncta carina;
frondentisque ferunt remos et robora silvis
400infabricata, fugae studio.
Migrantis cernas, totaque ex urbe ruentis.
Ac velut ingentem formicae farris acervum
cum populant, hiemis memores, tectoque reponunt;
it nigrum campis agmen, praedamque per herbas
405convectant calle angusto; pars grandia trudunt
obnixae frumenta umeris; pars agmina cogunt
castigantque moras; opere omnis semita fervet.
Quis tibi tum, Dido, cernenti talia sensus?
quosve dabas gemitus, cum litora fervere late
410prospiceres arce ex summa, totumque videres
misceri ante oculos tantis clamoribus aequor?
Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis?
Ire iterum in lacrimas, iterum temptare precando
cogitur, et supplex animos submittere amori,
415ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat.
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