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I have lived
and journeyed through the course assigned by fortune.
And now my Shade will pass, illustrious,
beneath the earth.
Aeneid (-19)
An ornament and a safeguard.
Aeneid (-19)
Nay, had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime, or rehearse all the tale of torments.
Aeneid (-19)
How changed from what he once was!
Aeneid (-19)
How fortunate, both at once!
If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn
that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while
the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken,
not while the Roman Father rules the world.
Aeneid (-19)
Fear gave wings to his feet.
Aeneid (-19)
I sing of arms and a man.
Aeneid (-19)
Euryalus
In death went reeling down,
And blood streamed on his handsome length, his neck
Collapsing let his head fall on his shoulder—
As a bright flower cut by a passing plow
Will droop and wither slowly, or a poppy
Bow its head upon its tired stalk
When overborne by a passing rain.
Aeneid (-19)
There is no salvation in war.
Aeneid (-19)
Give lilies with full hands.
Aeneid (-19)
I wait with listening ears.
Aeneid (-19)
There are twin Gates of Sleep.
One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn
and it offers easy passage to all true shades.
The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless,
but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky.
Aeneid (-19)