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1: 19 BC
2: He said, and sent Cyllenius with command
3: The modest queen a while, with downcast eyes,
4: "His fear at length dismiss'd, he said: 'Whate'er
5: "As hungry wolves, with raging appetite,
6: "Descending thence, I scape thro' foes and fire:
7: "All are concern'd to know what place the god
8: "'When, parted hence, the wind, that ready waits
9: "Right o'er against Plemmyrium's wat'ry strand,
10: Hermes obeys; with golden pinions binds
11: Thus far she said, and farther speech forbears;
12: Now came the day desir'd. The skies were bright
13: Acestes, fir'd with just disdain, to see
14: Not so the raging fires their fury cease,
15: Struggling in vain, impatient of her load,
16: Now nearer to the Stygian lake they draw:
17: To these the Sibyl thus her speech address'd,
18: Now, Erato, thy poet's mind inspire,
19: Thus having said, she sinks beneath the ground,
20: A solemn custom was observ'd of old,
21: The foll'wing night, and the succeeding day,
22: Then thus the pow'r, obnoxious to her charms,
23: Betwixt the quarters flows a golden sea;
24: All creatures else forgot their daily care,
25: And now the trumpets terribly, from far,
26: The Trojan chiefs behold, with rage and grief,
27: Then thus he pray'd, and fix'd on heav'n his eyes:
28: Four sons of Sulmo, four whom Ufens bred,
29: The Trojan prince beheld him from afar,
30: Now suppliants, from Laurentum sent, demand
31: Then Drances took the word, who grudg'd, long since,
32: She said. The faithful nymph descends from high
33: Their leader lost, the Volscians quit the field,
34: When thus in public view the peace was tied
35: As the black swallow near the palace plies;
36: Surpris'd with fear, he fled along the field,
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