Book 6.695-702
Aeneas explains how he arrived in the Underworld. He tries to embrace his father.
Ille autem: “Tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago,
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saepius occurrens, haec limina tendere adegit:
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stant sale Tyrrheno classes. Da iungere dextram,
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da, genitor, teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro.”
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Sic memorans, largo fletu simul ora rigabat.
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Ter conatus ibi collo dare brachia circum,
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ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago,
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[par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno.]
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