Book 12.930-939
Turnus on the ground begs Aeneas to spare him or send his body back to his people. He admits defeat and gives up Lavinia.
Ille humilis supplexque oculos, dextramque precantem
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protendens, “Equidem merui nec deprecor,” inquit.
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“Utere sorte tua. Miseri te si qua parentis
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tangere cura potest, oro (fuit et tibi talis
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Anchises genitor), Dauni miserere senectae
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et me seu corpus spoliatum lumine mavis
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redde meis. Vicisti, et victum tendere palmas
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Ausonii videre; tua est Lavinia coniunx:
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ulterius ne tende odiis.” Stetit acer in armis
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Aeneas, volvens oculos, dextramque repressit;
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