Book 8.608-616
Venus arrives bearing gifts for Aeneas. She embraces her son and leaves the weapons under an oak tree.
At Venus aetherios inter dea candida nimbos
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dona ferens aderat; natumque in valle reducta
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ut procul egelido secretum flumine vidit,
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talibus adfata est dictis seque obtulit ultro:
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“En perfecta mei promissa coniugis arte
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munera, ne mox aut Laurentis, nate, superbos
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aut acrem dubites in proelia poscere Turnum.”
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Dixit et amplexus nati Cytherea petivit,
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arma sub adversa posuit radiantia quercu.
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