P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid 12.945-952

The final eight lines of the Aeneid. Aeneas, about to spare the suppliant Turnus, catches sight of a trophy taken from his fallen young ally Pallas. The poem's abrupt and controversial ending has divided readers since antiquity.

 

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Aenēās cingulum Pallantis vīdit. memoria dolōris eum accendit. īra terribilis eum cēpit. dīxit:

'tū spolia amīcī meī geris — et effugere vīs? Pallās tē hōc vulnere interficit. Pallās poenam sūmit.'

hoc dīcēns ferrum in pectus Turnī condidit. membra Turnī frīgēscēbant. vīta cum gemitū sub umbrās fūgit.

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