Book 9.77-87
The poet invokes the Muses to tell him who saved the ships. The fleet had been built from pines grown on Mount Ida, and Cybele addressed Jupiter about this.
Quis deus, o musae, tam saeva incendia Teucris
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avertit? Tantos ratibus quis depulit ignes?
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Dicite. Prisca fides facto, sed fama perennis.
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Tempore quo primum Phrygia formabat in Ida
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Aeneas classem et pelagi petere alta parabat,
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ipsa deum fertur genetrix Berecyntia magnum
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vocibus his adfata Iovem: “Da, nate, petenti,
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quod tua cara parens domito te poscit Olympo.
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Pinea silva mihi, multos dilecta per annos
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lucus in arce fuit summa, quo sacra ferebant,
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nigranti picea trabibusque obscurus acernis:
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