Book 8.26-35
Asleep by the bank of the Tiber river, Aeneas is visited by the river god himself.
Nox erat, et terras animalia fessa per omnis
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alituum pecudumque genus sopor altus habebat:
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cum pater in ripa gelidique sub aetheris axe
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Aeneas, tristi turbatus pectora bello,
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procubuit seramque dedit per membra quietem.
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Huic deus ipse loci fluvio Tiberinus amoeno
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populeas inter senior se attollere frondes
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visus; eum tenuis glauco velabat amictu
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carbasus, et crinis umbrosa tegebat harundo,
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tum sic adfari et curas his demere dictis:
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