P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid 1.561-578

 

Tier 2

tum Dīdō, oculis declinatis, dicit breviter: "mittite metum ē cordis, Teucrī; sēclūdite cūrās tuās. rēs dūra et novitās regnī cōgunt mē facere tālia, et cōgunt mē defendere fīnēs custodibus ubique.

 

"quis nesciat genus Aeneadum, quis nesciat Troiam, virtūtēsque virōsque, aut incendia tantī bellī? nōs Poenī nōn habemus adeō obtūnsa pectora nec Sōl iungit equōs tam longe ab urbe Tyriā. seu vōs petatis Hesperiam magnam et arva Sāturnia, sīve fīnēs Erycīs et rēgem Acestēn, ego mittam vōs tūtōs auxiliō et iuvābō vōs pecuniis meis.

 

"aut vultis habitare mēcum? urbs quam aedificō est vestra. Subdūcite nāvēs; Trōianus Tyriusque sunt mihi aequi; utinam rex ipse, Aenēās, adforet, compulsus eōdem tempestate. equidem dīmittam certōs virōs per lītora et iubēbo explorare extrēma Libyae, sī, Aenēās ēiectus, errat in silvīs aut urbibus nostrīs."

 

 

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