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I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
had made him fugitive; he was the first
to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
as Italy and the Lavinian shores.

— Allen Mandelbaum The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)

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Euryalus, is it
the gods who put this fire in our minds,
or is it that each man's relentless longing
becomes a god to him?

The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)

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