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Silius Italicus: Punica VII 409-493:
And, while Cytherea thus charged her winged children, all the grove reechoed the footsteps of a goddess. For now came the Warrior Maid (8). She had laid aside her aegis; the hair which the helmet was wont to hide was braided now, and her clear eyes wore a studied look of peace; and her sacred feet bore her quickly to the appointed grove. From another quarter obedient to the call came the daughter of Saturn; though wedded to her brother, Jupiter, she must endure to be judged and rejected by the Trojan shepherd on Mount Ida. Last came Venus with smiling face, glorious in her beauty.
All the surrounding groves and all the hollows of the leaf-clad heights drank in deeply the fragrance that breathed from that divine head. The judge could not sit still; his eyes, dazzled by the brilliance of her beauty, sank to the ground; and he feared lest he might seem ever to have been in doubt.

But the defeated goddesses brought a fierce army across the sea, and Troy was demolished together with the Trojan who had judged them. Then good Aeneas, after much suffering on land and sea, established the gods of Troy on the soil of Italy.

So long as sea-monsters shall swim the deep and stars shine in the sky and the sun rise on the Indian shore, Rome shall rule, and there shall be no end to her rule throughout the ages.
[dum cete ponto innabunt, dum sidera caelo
lucebunt, dum sol Indo se litore tollet,
hic regna et nullae regnis per seacula metae.]
But you, my daughters, while the thread of Fate that none may change still runs on, avoid the ill-omened sands of Saso (9) in the Adriatic sea. For Aufidus will fall into the sea, his stream swollen with gore; and on a field condemned long ago by the oracles of Heaven (10) the ghosts of Aetolia (11) shall fight the Trojans (12) once more.

Later the missiles of Carthage shall batter the walls of Romulus, and the Metaurus shall be famous for the utter defeat of Hasdrubal. Next the offspring of stolen love (13) shall duly avenge his father and his uncle (14) as well; then he shall spread over the coast of Dido, and tear Hannibal away from the vitals of Italy on which he is preying, and defeat him in his own country. To him Carthage shall surrender her arms, and Africa her name (15). And his son’s son shall finish a third war with victory and bring back the ashes of Libya to the Capitol (16).”

[Silius Italicus, Punica. 2 vols. Ed. by J. D. Duff. Cambridge (Mass.)/London 1934; vol. I, pp. 364-371]

(8) Pallas Athene
(9) Hier prophezeit Proteus die Schlacht von Cannae; das Blut der Römer wird von dort durch den Fluß Aufidus ins Meer getragen werden; Saso ist eine Insel vor der Küste von Epirus.
(10) die Sibylle von Cumae
(11) Apulien
(12) d.h. die Römer
(13) Scipio Africanus
(14) Diese beiden Scipionen fielen in Spanien 212 v.u.Z.
(15) Anspielung auf das cognomen Africanus
(16) 146 v.u.Z. durch P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus, der durch Adoption der Enkel des ersten Africanus war
 
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