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Virgil · 1
Canon spine row 18. Virgil — Aeneid. Era: 1st C BCE. Lang: Latin.
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Duty to a fated mission costs everything—home, love, peace—and that cost is the poem's true subject.
calling
Thy son in Italy shall wage successful war, shall tame fierce nations, impose sovereign laws, and cities build—the fates are fixed.
AENEI-RC-008Thus far, by fate's decrees and thy commands, through ambient seas and devouring sands, our exiled crew has sought the Ausonian ground.
AENEI-RC-109grief
Stung with my loss, raving with despair, abandoning my forgotten care—I left my sire, my son, my country gods.
AENEI-RC-041Frantic with fear, impatient of the wound, impotent of mind, she roves the city round—less wild the Bacchanalian dames appear.
AENEI-RC-070mortality
Priam, in arms disused, loaded not armed, creeps along with pain—despairing of success, ambitious to be slain.
AENEI-RC-035We leave the narrow lanes and dare the unequal combat—night was our friend; our leader was despair.
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