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Book 14 · lines 223–237
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223Aeolon ille refert Tusco regnare profundo,
224Aeolon Hippotaden, cohibentem carcere ventos;
225quos bovis inclusos tergo, memorabile munus,
226Dulichium sumpsisse ducem flatuque secundo
227lucibus isse novem et terram adspexisse petitam;
228proxima post nonam cum sese aurora moveret,
229invidia socios praedaeque cupidine victos,
230esse ratos aurum, dempsisse ligamina ventis;
231cum quibus isse retro, per quas modo venerat undas,
232Aeoliique ratem portus repetisse tyranni.
233“Inde Lami veterem Laestrygonis” inquit “in urbem
234venimus. Antiphates terra regnabat in illa.
235Missus ad hunc ego sum, numero comitante duorum,
236vixque fuga quaesita salus comitique mihique:
237tertius e nobis Laestrygonis impia tinxit