exemplum grave erit Calchas: namque Aulide solvit ille bene haerentis ad pia saxa rates; idem Agamemnoniae ferrum cervice puellae tinxit et Atridis vela cruenta dedit; nec rediere tamen Danai: tu, diruta, fletum supprime et Euboicos respice, Troia, sinus! Nauplius ultores sub noctem porrigit ignes, et natat exuviis Graecia pressa suis.
Calchas will prove a salutary warning: for he released from Aulis the fleet that had been well tied to merciful rocks; so doing he stained his knife with the sacrifice of Agamemnons daughter and gave the sons of Atreus bloodstained sails; yet the Greeks came not home: dry your eyes, ruined Troy, and think of the bays of Euboea. Nauplius beckons with his vengeful beacon at nightfall, and Greece is shipwrecked, sunk by its booty.
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