Book 8.578-584
Evander worries about the uncertainty of the future. He embraces Pallas as he departs.
Sin aliquem infandum casum, Fortuna, minaris:
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nunc O nunc liceat crudelem abrumpere vitam,
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dum curae ambiguae, dum spes incerta futuri,
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dum te, care puer, mea sera et sola voluptas,
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complexu teneo, gravior neu nuntius auris
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volneret.” Haec genitor digressu dicta supremo
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fundebat: famuli conlapsum in tecta ferebant.
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