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    P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. John Dryden)

    Editions and translations: English (ed. John Dryden) | English (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | Latin (ed. J. B. Greenough)
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    But Cynthia's maid, high seated, from afar
    Surveys the field, and fortune of the war,
    Unmov'd a while, till, prostrate on the plain,
    Welt'ring in blood, she sees Camilla slain,
    And, round her corpse, of friends and foes a fighting train.
    Then, from the bottom of her breast, she drew
    A mournful sigh, and these sad words ensue:
    “Too dear a fine, ah much lamented maid,
    For warring with the Trojans, thou hast paid!
    Nor aught avail'd, in this unhappy strife,
    Diana's sacred arms, to save thy life.
    Yet unreveng'd thy goddess will not leave
    Her vot'ry's death, nor; with vain sorrow grieve.
    Branded the wretch, and be his name abhorr'd;
    But after ages shall thy praise record.
    Th' inglorious coward soon shall press the plain:
    Thus vows thy queen, and thus the Fates ordain.”

    High o'er the field there stood a hilly mound,
    Sacred the place, and spread with oaks around,
    Where, in a marble tomb, Dercennus lay,
    A king that once in Latium bore the sway.
    The beauteous Opis thither bent her flight,
    To mark the traitor Aruns from the height.
    Him in refulgent arms she soon espied,
    Swoln with success; and loudly thus she cried:
    “Thy backward steps, vain boaster, are too late;
    Turn like a man, at length, and meet thy fate.
    Charg'd with my message, to Camilla go,
    And say I sent thee to the shades below,
    An honor undeserv'd from Cynthia's bow.”

    She said, and from her quiver chose with speed
    The winged shaft, predestin'd for the deed;
    Then to the stubborn yew her strength applied,
    Till the far distant horns approach'd on either side.
    The bowstring touch'd her breast, so strong she drew;
    Whizzing in air the fatal arrow flew.
    At once the twanging bow and sounding dart
    The traitor heard, and felt the point within his heart.
    Him, beating with his heels in pangs of death,
    His flying friends to foreign fields bequeath.
    The conqu'ring damsel, with expanded wings,
    The welcome message to her mistress brings.


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    Cross references from Allen Rogers Benner, Selections from Homer's Iliad:
    16, 250 [Book 16 (P)]: Audiit et voti Phoebus succedere partemmente dedit, partem volucres dispersit in auras:sterneret ut subita turbatam morte Camillam.annuit oranti; reducem ut patria alta videret,non dedit, inque notos vocem vertere procellae

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