. máter gravida párere ex se ardentém facem
Visást in somnis Hécuba; quo factó pater
Rex ípse Priamus sómnio mentís metu
Percúlsus curis súmptus suspirántibus
Exsácrificabat hóstiis balántibus.
Tum cóniecturam póstulat pacém petens,
Ut se édoceret, óbsecrans Apóllinem,
Quo sése vertant tántae sortes sómnium.
Ibi éx oraclo vóce divina édidit
Apóllo, puerum, prímus Priamo quí foret
Postílla natus, témperaret tóllere;
Eum ésse exitium Tróiae, pestem Pérgamo.
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Haec, etiamsi ficta sunt a poe+ta, non absunt tamen a
consuetudine somniorum. Sit sane etiam illud commenticium, quo Priamus est conturbatus, quia
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