Et  jam  fama  volans,  tanti  pnenuntia  luetics,
Evandrum  Evandrique  domo?  et  mcenia  eomplet ;
Quae  modd  victorem  Latio  Pallanta  ferebat
Arcades  ad  portas  ru^re,  et  de  more  vetusto
Funereas  rapudre  faces ;  lucet  via  longo
Ordine  flammarum,  et  latd  discriminat  agros.
Contr^  turba  Phrygum  veniens  plangentia  jungnnt
Agmina.     Quae  postquam  matres  succedere  tedia
Viderunt,  moestam  incendunt  clamoribus  urbem.
At  non  Evandrum  potis  est  vis  ulla  tenere ;
Sed  venit  in  medios.     Feretro  Pallanta  repAsto
Procumbit  super,  atque  bfleret  lachrymansque  gemensque :


587


135      135.  JClinjiigia

137.  Xuc  cesaont  •cin*
dara


141.  Eademjama^  qua
modi  ferebat  Latio  Pal*
lanta  esn  victorem


145


146.     Que    ogminA
poatquam  matres


£t  via  vix  tandem  voci  laxata  dolore  est :

Non  hsec,  6  Palla,  dederas  promissa  parenti,

Cautiil^  ut  saevo  veiles  te  credere  Marti  I

Haud  ignarus  eram,  quantum  nova  gloria  in  arrais,

Et  prsedulce  decus  primo  certamine  posset.  156

Primitiae  juvenis  miserse !  belbque  propinqui

Dura  rudimenta  !  et  nulli  exaudita  Deorum

Vota,  precesquo  meae !  tuque,  6  sanctissima  conjux,

Felix  morte  tu&,  neque  in  hunc  servata  dolorem !

Contrii  ego  vivendo  vici  mea  fata,  superstes  160

Restarem  ut  genitor.     Troftm  socia  anna  secutum

Obrucrent  Rutuli  telis !  animam  ipse  dedissem  ;

Atque  hsec  pompa  domum  me,  non  Pallanta,  referret !

Nee  vos  arguerim,  Teucri,  nee  fcedera,  nee  quaa


151      151.  Pra  dolora


156.  OmiBera  primi-
tin  juTenii


161.  Ut  ego  genitof
restarem  supergtce  yi/iM
Rutuli  obruerent  $m


NOTES


the  purpose  of  btirying  the  dead,  and  other
ritee  of  sepulture.  This  was  intermediate
between  the  war,  before  and  after;  during
which  time  no  act  of  hostility  coald  be  done
by  either  party.  Hence  the  propriety  of  the
word  impuni  in  tlie  following  line,  in  safety,
or  withoat  fear  of  injnry.
\A5.  Ferro  bipenni:  an  axe  with  two
edges,  one  that  cuts  both  ways.
