Book 12.247-256
An eagle is seen flying in the air and it seizes a swan. But a flock of birds forces the eagle to drop the swan. It flies away.
Namque volans rubra fulvus Iovis ales in aethra
247
litoreas agitabat aves turbamque sonantem
248
agminis aligeri, subito cum lapsus ad undas
249
cycnum excellentem pedibus rapit improbus uncis.
250
Adrexere animos Itali, cunctaeque volucres
251
convertunt clamore fugam, mirabile visu,
252
aetheraque obscurant pennis hostemque per auras
253
facta nube premunt, donec vi victus et ipso
254
pondere defecit, praedamque ex unguibus ales
255
proiecit fluvio penitusque in nubila fugit.
256