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Book 7 · lines 552–566
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552Pervenit ad miseros damno graviore colonos
553pestis et in magnae dominatur moenibus urbis.
554Viscera torrentur primo, flammaeque latentis
555indicium rubor est et ductus anhelitus ingens.
556Aspera lingua tumet, tepidisque arentia ventis
557ora patent, auraeque graves captantur hiatu.
558Non stratum, non ulla pati velamina possunt,
559dura sed in terra ponunt praecordia; nec fit
560corpus humo gelidum, sed humus de corpore fervet.
561Nec moderator adest, inque ipsos saeva medentes
562erumpit clades, obsuntque auctoribus artes:
563quo propior quisque est servitque fidelius aegro,
564in partem leti citius venit. Utque salutis
565spes abiit finemque vident in funere morbi,
566indulgent animis et nulla, quid utile, cura est: