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Quales sunt hostium vel ferarum
caede madentium aut ad caedem euntium aspectus,
qualia poetae inferna monstra finxerunt succincta
serpentibus et igneo flatu, quales ad bella excitanda
discordiamque in populos dividendam pacemque
lacerandam teterrimae inferum exeunt: talem
nobis iram figuremus, flamma lumina ardentia,
sibilo mugituque et gemitu et stridore et si qua his
invisior vox est perstrepentem, tela manu utraque
quatientem (neque enim illi se tegere curae est),
torvam cruentamque et cicatricosam et verberibus
suis lividam, incessus vaesani, offusam multa caligine,
incursitantem, vastantem fugantemque et omnium
odio laborantem, sui maxime, si aliter nocere non
possit, terras, maria, caelum ruere cupientem,
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infestam pariter invisamque.
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