Book 10.521-529
The Rutulian Magus pleads with Aeneas to spare his life, offering him riches.
Inde Mago procul infensam contenderat hastam.
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Ille astu subit at tremibunda supervolat hasta,
522
et genua amplectens effatur talia supplex:
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“Per patrios manis et spes surgentis Iuli
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te precor, hanc animam serves natoque patrique.
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Est domus alta, iacent penitus defossa talenta
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caelati argenti, sunt auri pondera facti
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infectique mihi. Non hic victoria Teucrum
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vertitur aut anima una dabit discrimina tanta.”
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