Book 2.453-468
Aeneas sneaks into Priam's palace via a secret entrance and climbs to the roof to help in the Trojan defence.
Limen erat caecaeque fores et pervius usus
453
tectorum inter se Priami, postesque relicti
454
a tergo, infelix qua se, dum regna manebant,
455
saepius Andromache ferre incomitata solebat
456
ad soceros, et avo puerum Astyanacta trahebat.
457
Evado ad summi fastigia culminis, unde
458
tela manu miseri iactabant inrita Teucri.
459
Turrim in praecipiti stantem summisque sub astra
460
eductam tectis, unde omnis Troia videri
461
et Danaum solitae naves et Achaia castra,
462
adgressi ferro circum, qua summa labantis
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iuncturas tabulata dabant, convellimus altis
464
sedibus, impulimusque; ea lapsa repente ruinam
465
cum sonitu trahit et Danaum super agmina late
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incidit: ast alii subeunt, nec saxa, nec ullum
467
telorum interea cessat genus.
468