Book 5.762-771
The Trojans feast for nine days, and those who are staying behind are sad at the coming departure.
Iamque dies epulata novem gens omnis, et aris
762
factus honos: placidi straverunt aequora venti,
763
creber et adspirans rursus vocat Auster in altum.
764
Exoritur procurva ingens per litora fletus;
765
complexi inter se noctemque diemque morantur.
766
Ipsae iam matres, ipsi, quibus aspera quondam
767
visa maris facies et non tolerabile numen,
768
ire volunt, omnemque fugae perferre laborem.
769
Quos bonus Aeneas dictis solatur amicis,
770
et consanguineo lacrimans commendat Acestae.
771
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