Book 12.583-592
The city is gripped with fear and the citizens arm themselves to defend the walls, like bees trying to defend a hive from a shepherd.
Exoritur trepidos inter discordia civis:
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urbem alii reserare iubent et pandere portas
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Dardanidis ipsumque trahunt in moenia regem,
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arma ferunt alii et pergunt defendere muros.
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Inclusas ut cum latebroso in pumice pastor
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vestigavit apes fumoque implevit amaro:
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illae intus trepidae rerum per cerea castra
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discurrunt magnisque acuunt stridoribus iras;
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volvitur ater odor tectis, tum murmure caeco
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intus saxa sonant, vacuas it fumus ad auras.
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