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Book 2 · lines 833–847
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833Has ubi verborum poenas mentisque profanae
834cepit Atlantiades, dictas a Pallade terras
835linquit et ingreditur iactatis aethera pennis.
836Sevocat hunc genitor. Nec causam fassus amoris
837“fide minister” ait “iussorum, nate, meorum,
838pelle moram solitoque celer delabere cursu,
839quaeque tuam matrem tellus a parte sinistra
840suspicit (indigenae Sidonida nomine dicunt),
841hanc pete, quodque procul montano gramine pasci
842armentum regale vides, ad litora verte.”
843Dixit, et expulsi iamdudum monte iuvenci
844litora iussa petunt, ubi magni filia regis
845ludere virginibus Tyriis comitata solebat.
846Non bene conveniunt nec in una sede morantur
847maiestas et amor: sceptri gravitate relicta