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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day
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Virgil (Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1–6 (Loeb Classical Library))
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Consider it warly, reid oftar than anys;
Weill at a blenk sle poetry nocht tane is.
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Gavin Douglas (The Aeneid, Volume 1: Introduction, Books I - VIII)
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Reid, reid agane, this volume, mair than twys:
Considir quhat hyd sentence tharin lys.
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Gavin Douglas (The Aeneid, Volume 1: Introduction, Books I - VIII)
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If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero’s speeches are language as practical tool.
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Thomas Cahill (How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History Book 1))
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She explained how, during her years of exile in France, she and her cousin Claudette had shared a private tutor. He was a man in his fifties, a bit of a tippler, who affected literary airs and boasted of being able to recite Virgil’s Aeneid in Latin without an accent. The girls had nicknamed him “Monsieur Roquefort
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1))