Book 5.124-135
The course is determined: a rock in the middle of the sea is chosen as the turning point.
Est procul in pelago saxum spumantia contra
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litora, quod tumidis submersum tunditur olim
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fluctibus, hiberni condunt ubi sidera Cauri;
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tranquillo silet, immotaque attollitur unda
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campus, et apricis statio gratissima mergis.
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Hic viridem Aeneas frondenti ex ilice metam
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constituit signum nautis pater, unde reverti
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scirent, et longos ubi circumflectere cursus.
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Tum loca sorte legunt, ipsique in puppibus auro
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ductores longe effulgent ostroque decori;
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cetera populea velatur fronde iuventus,
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nudatosque umeros oleo perfusa nitescit.
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