Book 8.259-267
Cacus is seized by the throat and choked to death. His body is dragged out of the cave.
Hic Cacum in tenebris incendia vana vomentem
259
corripit in nodum complexus et angit inhaerens
260
elisos oculos et siccum sanguine guttur.
261
Panditur extemplo foribus domus atra revulsis,
262
abstractaeque boves abiurataeque rapinae
263
caelo ostenduntur, pedibusque informe cadaver
264
protrahitur. Nequeunt expleri corda tuendo
265
terribilis oculos, voltum villosaque saetis
266
pectora semiferi atque extinctos faucibus ignis.
267