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The Oxford Book of Latin Verse

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MARCIO VATI ATTRIBVTVM

76 B.C. (?)

54.

AMNEM, Troiugena, Cannam fuge, defuge Cannam: neue alienigenae cogant te conserere unquam in campo Diomedis manus. sed tu neque credes ante mihi donec compleris sanguine campum multaque milia caesorum tibi deferat amnis in pontum ex gremio terrai frugiferai: quaeque colunt terras pisces uolucresque feraeque his fuat esca caro tua. Iuppiter haec mihi fatust.

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