Ran from the fort, and cried, from far, aloud: Troiaque nunc staret, Priamique arx alta maneres. Impulerat ferro Argolicas foedare latebras, Insonuere cavae gemitumque dedere cavernae.Įt, si fata deum, si mens non laeva fuisset, In latus inque feri curvam compagibus alvumĬontorsit. Sic fatus ualidis ingentem viribus hastam Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.' Inspectura domos venturaque desuper urbi,Īut aliquis latet error equo ne credite, Teucri. Primus ibi ante omnis magna comitante catervaĮt procul 'o miseri, quae tanta insania, cives?Ĭreditis avectos hostis? aut ulla putatisĭona carere dolis Danaum? sic notus Ulixes?Īut hoc inclusi ligno occultantur Achivi,Īut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros, NwhyteRather than the second paragraph of Book III, I’m taking the second paragraph of Book II as my sample text, because it includes the single best known quotation from the poem:
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