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Book 6 · lines 1138–1153
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1138Haec ratio quondam morborum et mortifer aestus
1139finibus in Cecropis funestos reddidit agros
1140vastavitque vias, exhausit civibus urbem.
1141nam penitus veniens Aegypti finibus ortus,
1142aeera aeëra permensus multum camposque natantis,
1143incubuit tandem populo Pandionis omni.
1144inde catervatim morbo mortique dabantur.
1145principio caput incensum fervore gerebant
1146et duplicis oculos suffusa luce rubentes.
1147sudabant etiam fauces intrinsecus atrae
1148sanguine et ulceribus vocis via saepta coibat
1149atque animi interpres manabat lingua cruore
1150debilitata malis, motu gravis, aspera tactu.
1151inde ubi per fauces pectus complerat et ipsum
1152morbida vis in cor maestum confluxerat aegris,
1153omnia tum vero vitai claustra lababant.