195Sic prior Aeneas; sequitur sic deinde Latinus
suspiciens caelum tenditque ad sidera dextram:
“Haec eadem, Aenea, terram mare sidera iuro
Latonaeque genus duplex Ianumque bifrontem
vimque deum infernam et duri sacraria Ditis;
200audiat haec genitor, qui foedera fulmine sancit.
Tango aras, medios ignis et numina testor:
nulla dies pacem hanc Italis nec foedera rumpet,
quo res cumque cadent; nec me vis ulla volentem
avertet, non, si tellurem effundat in undas
205diluvio miscens caelumque in Tartara solvat;
ut sceptrum hoc” (dextra sceptrum nam forte gerebat
“numquam fronde levi fundet virgulta nec umbras,
cum semel in silvis imo de stirpe recisum
matre caret posuitque comas et bracchia ferro,
210olim arbos, nunc artificis manus aere decoro
inclusit patribusque dedit gesture Latinis.”
Talibus inter se firmabant foedera dictis
conspectu in medio procerum. Tum rite sacratas
in flammam iugulant pecudes et viscera vivis
215eripiunt cumulantque oneratis lancibus aras.
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