Book 10.452-463
Turnus leaps down from his chariot and advances toward Pallas like a lion rushing to attack a bull. Pallas prays to Hercules to guide his spear.
Frigidus Arcadibus coit in praecordia sanguis.
452
Desiluit Turnus biiugis, pedes apparat ire
453
comminus; utque leo, specula cum vidit ab alta
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stare procul campis meditantem in proelia taurum,
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advolat: haud alia est Turni venientis imago.
456
Hunc ubi contiguum missae fore credidit hastae,
457
ire prior Pallas, si qua fors adiuvet ausum
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viribus imparibus, magnumque ita ad aethera fatur:
459
“Per patris hospitium et mensas, quas advena adisti,
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te precor, Alcide, coeptis ingentibus adsis.
461
Cernat semineci sibi me rapere arma cruenta
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victoremque ferant morientia lumina Turni.”
463