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Rh For thee Anguitia's woody cave,

For thee the glassy Fucine wave,

For thee the lake shed tears.

From green Aricia, bent on fame,

Hippolytus' fair offspring came,

In lone Egeria's forest reared,

Where Dian's shrine is loved and feared.

For lost Hippolytus, 'tis said,

By cruel stepdame's cunning dead,

Dragged by his frightened steeds, to sate

His angry sire's vindictive hate,

Was called once more to realms above,

By Pæon's skill and Dian's love.

Then Jove, incensed that man should rise

From darkness to the upper skies,

The leech that wrought such healing hurled

With lightning down to Pluto's world.

But Trivia kind her favourite hides

And to Egeria's care confides,

To live in woods obscure and lone,

And lose in Virbius' name his own.

'Tis thence e'en now from Trivia's shrine

The horn-hoofed steeds are chased,

Since, scared by monsters of the brine,

The chariot and the youth divine

They tumbled on the waste.

Yet ne'ertheless with horse and car

His dauntless son essays the war.

In foremost rank see Turnus move,

His comely head the rest above:

On his tall helm with triple cone

Chimæra in relief is shown;

The monster's gaping jaws expire

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