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Book 8 · lines 451–465
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451Stipes erat, quem, cum partus enixa iaceret
452Thestias, in flammam triplices posuere sorores;
453staminaque impresso fatalia pollice nentes
454“tempora” dixerunt “eadem lignoque tibique,
455o modo nate, damus.” Quo postquam carmine dicto
456excessere deae, flagrantem mater ab igne
457eripuit ramum sparsitque liquentibus undis.
458Ille diu fuerat penetralibus abditus imis
459servatusque tuos, iuvenis, servaverat annos.
460Protulit hunc genetrix taedasque et fragmina poni
461imperat et positis inimicos admovet ignes.
462Tum conata quater flammis imponere ramum,
463coepta quater tenuit. Pugnant materque sororque,
464et diversa trahunt unum duo nomina pectus.
465Saepe metu sceleris pallebant ora futuri,