He grips Aeneas’ knees and, suppliant, he begs him: “By your father’s Shade and by your hopes in rising Iülus, I entreat, do spare this life for my own son and father. I have a splendid house; there, hidden deep, 725 are many talents of chased silver; I have heaps of wrought and unwrought gold; the victory of Trojans cannot turn on me; one life will not make such a difference"—so Magus. Aeneas answered him: “Those heaps of talents, 730 the gold and silver that you tell of, Magus, save them for your own sons; such bargaining in war was set aside by Turnus first, just now when he killed
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