<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="lat"><body><div type="edition" xml:lang="lat" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0690.phi003.perseus-lat2" subtype="book"><div n="2" type="textpart" subtype="book"><l n="235">Accingunt omnes operi, pedibusque rotarum</l><l n="236">subiciunt lapsus, et stuppea vincula collo</l><l n="237">intendunt: scandit fatalis machina muros,</l><l n="238">feta armis.  Pueri circum innuptaeque puellae</l><l n="239">sacra canunt, funemque manu contingere gaudent.</l><l n="240">Illa subit, mediaeque minans inlabitur urbi.</l><l n="241">O patria, O divom domus Ilium, et incluta bello</l><l n="242">moenia Dardanidum, quater ipso in limine portae</l><l n="243">substitit, atque utero sonitum quater arma dedere:</l><l n="244">instamus tamen inmemores caecique furore,</l><l n="245">et monstrum infelix sacrata sistimus arce.</l><l n="246">Tunc etiam fatis aperit Cassandra futuris</l><l n="247">ora, dei iussu non umquam credita Teucris.</l><l n="248">Nos delubra deum miseri, quibus ultimus esset</l><l n="249">ille dies, festa velamus fronde per urbem.</l><milestone ed="p" n="250" unit="card"/><l n="250" rend="indent"><note resp="Perseus" xml:lang="eng">Aeneas narrates through line 715 in Book 3. A quotation mark appears here; this quote is never closed in print and has been omitted.</note>Vertitur interea caelum et ruit oceano nox,</l><l n="251">involvens umbra magna terramque polumque</l><l n="252">Myrmidonumque dolos; fusi per moenia Teucri</l><l n="253">conticuere, sopor fessos complectitur artus:</l><l n="254">et iam Argiva phalanx instructis navibus ibat</l><l n="255">a Tenedo tacitae per amica silentia lunae</l><l n="256">litora nota petens, flammas cum regia puppis</l><l n="257">extulerat, fatisque deum defensus iniquis</l><l n="258">inclusos utero Danaos et pinea furtim</l><l n="259">laxat claustra Sinon.  Illos patefactus ad auras</l><l n="260">reddit equus, laetique cavo se robore promunt</l><l n="261">Thessandrus Sthenelusque duces, et dirus Ulixes,</l><l n="262">demissum lapsi per funem, Acamasque, Thoasque,</l><l n="263">Pelidesque Neoptolemus, primusque Machaon,</l><l n="264">et Menelaus, et ipse doli fabricator Epeos.</l></div></div></body></text></TEI>