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1  I was motionless; my hair stood up, and the accents faltered on my tongue.
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2  A strange numbing terror unnerves his limbs, his hair thrills up, and the accents falter on his tongue.
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3  But Aeneas in truth gazed in dumb amazement, his hair thrilled up, and the accents faltered on his tongue.
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4  But in front of the battle-ranks the phantom dances rejoicingly, and with arms and mocking accents provokes the foe.
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5  Then indeed, borne down with dubious terror, I was motionless, my hair stood up, and the accents faltered on my tongue.
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6  Such accents uttered the daughter of Saturn; and the other raises her rustling snaky wings and darts away from the high upper air to Cocytus her home.
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7  At once that accent heard set their toils a limit; and at once as he spoke his father caught it from his lips and hushed him, in amazement at the omen.
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8  Just a few words I force up, and deeply moved gasp out in broken accents: "I live indeed, I live on through all extremities; doubt not, for real are the forms thou seest."
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9  Again and again his own valiance and his line's renown flood back upon her spirit; look and accent cling fast in her bosom, and the pain allows not rest or calm to her limbs.
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10  To surprise and strike down Camilla in sudden death, this he yielded to his prayer; that his high home might see his return he gave not, and a gust swept off his accents on the gale.
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11  Meanwhile in the heavenly dwellings Latona's daughter addressed fleet Opis, one of her maiden fellowship and sacred band, and sadly uttered these accents: 'Camilla moves to fierce war, O maiden, and vainly girds on our arms, dear as she is beyond others to me.'
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12  Here Clausus of Cures comes confident in his pride of strength, and with a long reach strikes Dryops under the chin, and, urging the stiff spear-shaft home, stops the accents of his speech and his life together, piercing the throat; but he strikes the earth with his forehead, and vomits clots of blood.
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