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Orodes while dying tells Mezentius that he will not live much longer. Mezentius mocks him.
Ille autem exspirans: “Non me, quicumque es, inulto,
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victor, nec longum laetabere: te quoque fata
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prospectant paria atque eadem mox arva tenebis.”
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Ad quae subridens mixta Mezentius ira:
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“Nunc morere. Ast de me divom pater atque hominum rex
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viderit.” Hoc dicens eduxit corpore telum:
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olli dura quies oculos et ferreus urget
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somnus, in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem.
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