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Aeneas instat contra telumque coruscat
ingens arboreum et saevo sic pectore fatur:
Quae nunc deinde mora est? Aut quid iam, Turne, retractas?
890Non cursu, saevis certandum est comminus armis.
Verte omnis tete in facies et contrahe quidquid
sive animis sive arte vales; opta ardua pennis
astra sequi clausumve cava te condere terra.”
Ille caput quassansNon me tua fervida terrent
895dicta, ferox: di me terrent et Iuppiter hostis.”
Nec plura effatus saxum circumspicit ingens,
saxum antiquum ingens, campo quod forte iacebat,
limes agro positus, litem ut discerneret arvis.
Vix illud lecti bis sex cervice subirent,
900qualia nunc hominum producit corpora tellus:
ille manu raptum trepida torquebat in hostem
altior insurgens et cursu concitus heros.
Sed neque currentem se nec cognoscit euntem
tollentemve manus saxumve immane moventem;
905genua labant, gelidus concrevit frigore sanguis.
Tum lapis ipse viri, vacuum per inane volutus,
nec spatium evasit totum neque pertulit ictum.
Ac velut in somnis, oculos ubi languida pressit
nocte quies, nequiquam avidos extendere cursus
910velle videmur et in mediis conatibus aegri
succidimus, non lingua valet, non corpore notae
sufficiunt vires, nec vox aut verba sequuntur:
sic Turno, quacumque viam virtute petivit,
successum dea dira negat. Tum pectore sensus
915vertuntur varii. Rutulos aspectat et urbem
cunctaturque metu letumque instare tremescit;
nec quo se eripiat, nec qua vi tendat in hostem,
nec currus usquam videt aurigamve sororem.

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  • Commentary references to this page (3):
    • E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 64
    • Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900), 22.199
    • George W. Mooney, Commentary on Apollonius: Argonautica, 3.446
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