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95Dum spatium victor victi considerat hostis,
96vox subito audita est; neque erat cognoscere promptum
97unde, sed audita est: “Quid, Agenore nate, peremptum
98serpentem spectas? et tu spectabere serpens.”
99Ille diu pavidus pariter cum mente colorem
100perdiderat, gelidoque comae terrore rigebant.
101Ecce viri fautrix, superas delapsa per auras,
102Pallas adest motaeque iubet supponere terrae
103vipereos dentes, populi incrementa futuri.
104Paret et, ut presso sulcum patefecit aratro,
105spargit humi iussos, mortalia semina, dentes.
106Inde (fide maius) glaebae coepere moveri,
107primaque de sulcis acies apparuit hastae,
108tegmina mox capitum picto nutantia cono,
109mox umeri pectusque onerataque bracchia telis