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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 10.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 10.

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A fickle and changeable thing always is woman.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 4.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 4.

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Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 8.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 8.

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Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 2.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 2.

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Her walk revealed her as a true goddess.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 1.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 1.

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To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold!

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 3.

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We sighted, far away, dim hills and a low coast-line-Italy.
Achates was the first to hail, "Italy! Italy!" my comrades echoed in cheerful greeting.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 3.

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If you want me to weep, you must first feel grief yourself.

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Ars Poetica

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Horace. Ars Poetica [The Art of Poetry]. c. 19 BC, l. 102.

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Horace. "Ars Poetica." Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica, translated by H. R. Fairclough. Harvard University Press, 1929, l. 102.

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You will have written exceptionally well if, by skillful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

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Horace. Ars Poetica [The Art of Poetry]. c. 19 BC, l. 47.

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Horace. "Ars Poetica." Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica, translated by H. R. Fairclough. Harvard University Press, 1929, l. 47.

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I sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy came destined an exile to Italy and the Lavinian beaches, a man much buffeted on land and on the deep by force of the gods because of fierce Juno's never-forgetting anger.