At parte ex alia, qua saxa rotantia late
impulerat torrens arbustaque diruta ripis,
Arcadas insuetos acies inferre pedestris
365ut vidit Pallas Latio dare terga sequaci
(aspera quis natura loci dimittere quando
suasit equos), unum quod rebus restat egenis,
nunc prece, nunc dictis virtutem accendit amaris:
“Quo fugitis, socii? Per vos et fortia facta,
370per ducis Evandri nomen devictaque bella
Opemque meam, patriae quae nunc subit aemula laudi,
fidite ne pedibus. Ferro rumpenda per hostis
est via. Qua globus ille virum densissimus urget,
hac vos et Pallanta ducem patria alta reposcit.
375Numina nulla premunt, mortali urgemur ab hoste
mortales, totidem nobis animaeque manusque.
Ecce, maris magna claudit nos obice pontus,
deest iam terra fugae: pelagus Troiamne petemus?”
Haec ait et medius densos prorumpit in hostis.
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