260Iamque in conspectu Teucros habet et sua castra,
stans celsa in puppi; clipeum cum deinde sinistra
extulit ardentem. Clamorem ad sidera tollunt
Dardanidae e muris, spes addita suscitat iras,
tela manu iaciunt: quales sub nubibus atris
265Strymoniae dant signa grues atque aethera tranant
cum sonitu fugiuntque notos clamore secundo.
At Rutulo regi ducibusque ea mira videri
Ausoniis, donec versas ad litora puppes
respiciunt totumque adlabi classibus aequor.
270Ardet apex capiti cristisque a vertice flamma
funditur et vastos umbo vomit aureus ignes:
non secus ac liquida siquando nocte cometae
sanguinei lugubre rubent aut Sirius ardor,
ille sitim morbosque ferens mortalibus aegris,
275nascitur et laevo contristat lumine caelum.
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