tum vero tremefacta novus per pectora cunctis insinuat pavor, et scelus expendisse merentem Laocoonta ferunt, sacrum qui cuspide robur laeserit et tergo sceleratam intorserit hastam.
Then indeed a strange terror steals through the shuddering hearts of all, and they say that Laocoon has rightly paid the penalty of crime, who with his lance profaned the sacred oak and hurled into its body the accursed spear.