Both Uses of
posterity
in
The Aeneid
- Our fortunes, good or bad, shall be the same: The double Troy shall differ but in name; That what we now begin may never end, But long to late posterity descend.'†
Book 3 *
- And here, heroic youth, 't is here I must To thy immortal memory be just, And sing an act so noble and so new, Posterity will scarce believe 't is true.†
Book 10
Definition:
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(posterity) all future generations