Such close had Priam's fortunes; so his days / were finished, such the bitter end he found, / now doomed by Fate with dying eyes to gaze / on Troy in flames and ruin all around, / and Pergamus laid level with the ground. / Lo, he to whom once Asia bowed the knee, / proud lord of many peoples, far-renowned, / now left to welter by the rolling sea, / a huge and headless trunk, a nameless corpse is he.
Hæc finis Priami fatorum; hic exitus illum / sorte tulit, Trojam incensam et prolapsa videntem / Pergama, tot quondam populis terrisque superbum / regnatorem Asiæ. Jacet ingens litore truncus, / avulsumque humeris caput et sine nomine corpus.Tatoeba-2020.08 Tatoeba-2020.08