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Book 15 · lines 479–493
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479Talibus atque aliis instructum pectora dictis
480in patriam remeasse ferunt ultroque petitum
481accepisse Numam populi Latiaris habenas.
482Coniuge qui felix nympha ducibusque Camenis
483sacrificos docuit ritus gentemque feroci
484adsuetam bello pacis traduxit ad artes.
485Qui postquam senior regnumque aevumque peregit,
486exstinctum Latiaeque nurus populusque patresque
487deflevere Numam; nam coniunx urbe relicta
488vallis Aricinae densis latet abdita silvis
489sacraque Oresteae gemitu questuque Dianae
490impedit: a! quotiens nymphae nemorisque lacusque,
491ne faceret, monuere et consolantia verba
492dixerunt. Quotiens flenti Theseius heros
493“siste modum!” dixit, “ne que enim fortuna querenda