I feel again the spark of an ancient flame.
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Book 4. |
Who could deceive a lover?
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Book 4. |
Nor will it ever upset me to remember Elissa so long as I
can remember who I am, so long as the breath of life controls
these limbs.
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Aeneas, of Dido, Book 4. |
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
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Book 4. |
Woman is ever fickle and changeable.
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Book 4. |
Rise up from my dead bones, avenger!
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Book 4. |
They can because they think they can.
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Book 5. |
I see wars, horrible wars, and the Tiber foaming with much
blood.
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Book 6. |
It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper
air -
There's the rub, the task.
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Book 6. |
Far off, Oh keep far off, you uninitiated ones.
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Book 6. |
Darkling they went under the lonely night through the shadow
and through the empty dwellings and unsubstantial realms of
Hades.
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Book 6. |
Before the very forecourt and in the opening of the jaws of
hell Grief and avenging Cares have placed their beds, and wan
Diseases and sad Old Age live there, and Fear and Hunger that
urges to wrongdoing, and shaming Destitution, figures terrible
to see, and Death and Toil.
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Book 6. |
They stood begging to be the first to make the voyage over
and they reached out their hands in longing for the further
shore.
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Book 6. |
Or those who have improved life by the knowledge they have
found out, and those who have made themselves remembered by
some for their services: round the brows of all these is worn
a snow-white band.
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Book 6. |
The spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout
the living parts activates the whole mass and mingles with the
vast frame.
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Book 6. |
Others shall shape bronzes more smoothly so that they seem
alive (yes, I believe it), shall mould from marble living faces,
shall better plead their cases in court, and shall demonstrate
with a pointer the motions of the heavenly bodies and tell the
stars as they rise: you, Roman, make your task to rule nations
by your government (these shall be your skills), to impose ordered
ways upon a state of peace, to spare those who have submitted
and to subdue the arrogant.
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Book 6. |
Alas, pitiable boy — if only you might break your cruel
fate! — you are to be Marcellus. Give me lilies in armfuls.
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Book 6. |
There are two gates of Sleep, one of which it is held is made
of horn and by it easy egress is given to real ghosts; the other
shining, fashioned of gleaming white ivory, but the shades send
deceptive visions that way to the light.
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Book 6. |
He prays to the spirit of the place and to Earth the first
of the gods and to the Nymphs and as yet unknown rivers.
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Book 7. |
If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move
Hell.
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Book 7. |
Oh if only Jupiter would give me back my past years.
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Book 8. |
The hoof with a galloping sound is shaking the powdery plain.
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Book 8. |
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that’s the way
to the stars.
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Book 9. |
Fortune favors the brave.
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Book 10. |
And dying remembers his sweet Argos.
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Book 10. |
Trust one who has gone through it.
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Book 11. |
When two bulls lower heads and horns and charge In deadly
combat ... [They] gore one another, bathing necks and humps
In sheets of blood, and the whole woodland bellows. Just so
Trojan Aeneas and the hero Son of Daunus, battering shield on
shield, Fought with a din that filled the air of heaven.
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Book 12. |
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