Book 11.255-265
Diomedes recounted the misfortunes suffered by the Greek victors from Troy.
Quicumque Iliacos ferro violavimus agros,
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mitto ea, quae muris bellando exhausta sub altis,
256
quos Simois premat ille viros, infanda per orbem
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supplicia et scelerum poenas expendimus omnes,
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vel Priamo miseranda manus: scit triste Minervae
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sidus et Euboicae cautes ultorque Caphareus.
260
Militia ex illa diversum ad litus abacti
261
Atrides Protei Menelaus adusque columnas
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exsulat, Aetnaeos vidit Cyclopas Ulixes.
263
Regna Neoptolemi referam versosque penates
264
Idomenei? Libycone habitantis litore Locros?
265