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Book 13 · lines 205–220
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205Longa referre mora est, quae consilioque manuque
206utiliter feci spatiosi tempore belli.
207Post acies primas urbis se moenibus hostes
208continuere diu, nec aperti copia Martis
209ulla fuit: decimo demum pugnavimus anno.
210Quid facis interea, qui nil nisi proelia, nosti?
211Quis tuus usus erat? Nam si mea facta requiris,
212hostibus insidior, fossas munimine cingo,
213consolor socios, ut longi taedia belli
214mente ferant placida, doceo, quo simus alendi
215armandique modo, mittor, quo postulat usus.
216Ecce Iovis monitu, deceptus imagine somni,
217rex iubet incepti curam dimittere belli.
218Ille potest auctore suam defendere vocem:
219non sinat hoc Aiax delendaque Pergama poscat,
220quodque potest, pugnet! Cur non remoratur ituros?