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Book 13 · lines 898–912
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898Desierat Galatea loqui, coetuque soluto
899discedunt placidisque natant Nereides undis.
900Scylla redit (neque enim medio se credere ponto
901audet) et aut bibula sine vestibus errat harena,
902aut, ubi lassata est, seductos nacta recessus
903gurgitis, inclusa sua membra refrigerat unda.
904Ecce fretum scindens alti novus incola ponti,
905nuper in Euboica versis Anthedone membris,
906Glaucus adest visaeque cupidine virginis haeret
907et quaecumque putat fugientem posse morari
908verba refert; fugit illa tamen veloxque timore
909pervenit in summum positi prope litora montis.
910Ante fretum est ingens, apicem conlectus in unum,
911longa sub arboribus convexus in aequora vertex:
912constitit hic, et tuta loco, monstrumne deusne