. Works; from the text of Heyne and Wagner. ad autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta(Horresco referens) immensis orbibus anguesIncumbimt pelago, pai-iterque ad litora tenduut;Pectora quorum inter fluctus aiTecta jubsequeSanguineag exsuperant undas ; pars cetera pontumPone legit, sinuantque immensa volumine terga;Fit sonitus, spumante salo. Jamque arva tenebant,Ardentesque ocxdos suffecti sanguine et igni,Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus visu exsangues: illi agmine certoLaocoonta petunt. Et primum parva duorumCorpora natorum serpens amplexus uterqueImplicat, et
. Works; from the text of Heyne and Wagner. ad autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta(Horresco referens) immensis orbibus anguesIncumbimt pelago, pai-iterque ad litora tenduut;Pectora quorum inter fluctus aiTecta jubsequeSanguineag exsuperant undas ; pars cetera pontumPone legit, sinuantque immensa volumine terga;Fit sonitus, spumante salo. Jamque arva tenebant,Ardentesque ocxdos suffecti sanguine et igni,Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus visu exsangues: illi agmine certoLaocoonta petunt. Et primum parva duorumCorpora natorum serpens amplexus uterqueImplicat, et miseros morsu depascitur artus ;Post ipsum, auxilio subeuntem ac tela , spuisque ligant ingentibus ; et jamBis medium amplexi, bis coUo squamea circumTerga dati, superant capite et cervicibus simul manibus tendit diveUere nodos,Perfusus sanie vittas atroque veneno ;Clamores simul horrendos ad sidera toUit:Quahs mugitus, fugit quum saucius aramTaurus, et incertam excussit cervice secm-jm. ^liTErDOS LIB. II. 129. At gemini lapsu delubra ad summa draconesEflfugiunt, s^evseque petunt Tritonidis arcem,Sub pedibusque dese, elipeique sub orbe vero tremefacta nows per pectora cunctisInsinuat pavor; et scelus expendisse merentemLaocoonta ferunt, sacrum qm cuspide roburLseserit, et tergo sceleratam intorserit ad sedes simulacrum, orandaque divseNumina conclamant. Dividimus muros, et moenia pandimus urbis ;Accingunt omnes operi, pedibusque rotarumSubjiciunt lapsus, et stuppea vincula colloIntendunt. Seandit fatalis machina muros,Feta armis : pueri circum innuptseque puellaeSacra canunt, funemque manu contingere subit, mediseque mrnans illabitiu patria, o divum domus Ilium, et inclyta bello 130 P. VIEGILII MAEONIS Moenia Dardanidum! quater ipso in limine portseSubstitit, atque utero sonitum quater arma tamen immemores csecique fmore,Et monstrum infelix sacrata sistimus etiam fatis aperit
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