At regina, nova pugnae conterrita sorte,
55flebat et ardentem generum monitura tenebat:
“Turne, per has ego te lacrimas, per siquis Amatae
tangit honos animum (spes tu nunc una, senectae
tu requies miserae, decus imperiumque Latini
te penes, in te omnis domus inclinata recumbit).
60unum oro: desiste manum committere Teucris.
Qui te cumque manent isto certamine casus,
et me, Turne, manent: simul haec invisa relinquam
lumina nec generum Aenean captiva videbo.”
Accepit vocem lacrimis Lavinia matris
65flagrantis perfusa genas, quoi plurimus ignem
subiecit rubor et calefacta per ora cucurrit.
Indum sanguineo veluti violaverit ostro
siquis ebur, aut mixta rubent ubi lilia multa
alba rosa: talis virgo dabat ore colores.
70Illum turbat amor, figitque in virgine voltus:
ardet in arma magis paucisque adfatur Amatam.
“Ne, quaeso, ne me lacrimis neve omine tanto
prosequere in duri certamina Martis euntem,
O mater; neque enim Turno mora libera mortis.
75Nuntius haec Idmon Phrygio mea dicta tyranno
haud placitura refer: cum primum crastina caelo
puniceis invecta rotis Aurora rubebit,
non Teucros agat in Rutulos, Teucrum arma quiescant
et Rutuli; nostro dirimamus sanguine bellum,
80illo quaeratur coniunx Lavinia campo.”
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