Book 2.496-505
Pyrrhus's assault is compared to a rushing river.
Non sic, aggeribus ruptis cum spumeus amnis
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exiit, oppositasque evicit gurgite moles,
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fertur in arva furens cumulo, camposque per omnis
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cum stabulis armenta trahit. Vidi ipse furentem
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caede Neoptolemum geminosque in limine Atridas;
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vidi Hecubam centumque nurus, Priamumque per aras
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sanguine foedantem, quos ipse sacraverat, ignis.
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Quinquaginta illi thalami, spes tanta nepotum,
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barbarico postes auro spoliisque superbi,
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procubuere; tenent Danai, qua deficit ignis.
505
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