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I loved reading the Odyssey and the Aeneid; and I made some of the finest friends of my life....† (source)
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She left one passage, a translation she'd made with my help, and also with the help of the library at Avilion — of the concluding lines of Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid.† (source)
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As for guides (and no traveler to the underworld should be without one), Dante in the Divine Comedy (1321 A.D.) has the Roman poet Virgil; in Virgil's epic, The Aeneid (19 B.C.), Aeneas has the Cumaean Sibyl as his guide.† (source)
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Facilis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. —Virgil, The Aeneid There was a moment of astonished silence before both Clary and Jace began speaking at once.† (source)
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He has translated Virgil's Aeneid ....the whole of Sallust and Tacitus' Agricola ....a great part of Horace, some of Ovid, and some of Caesar's Commentaries ....besides Tully's [Cicero's] Orations......In Greek his progress has not been equal; yet he has studiedmorsels of Aristotle's Politics, in Plutarch's Lives, and Lucian's Dialogues, The Choice of Hercules in Xenophon, and lately he has gone through several books in Homer's Iliad.† (source)
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Tartarian honeysuckle reminded me of Tartarus, the land of the dead in Virgil's Aeneid, the underworld, where the shades of the dead whispered in the shadows.† (source)
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Morning after morning I used to pace up and down my sunny little room, looking off at the distant river bluffs and the roll of the blond pastures between, scanning the 'Aeneid' aloud and committing long passages to memory.† (source)
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My admiration for the Aeneid is not so great, but it is none the less real.† (source)
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and like the myrtle-alley in the Aeneid, planted for their delight with trees of one kind only, the Allee des Acacias was thronged by the famous Beauties of the day.† (source)
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Doubtless there remained a subtle aroma from his juvenile contact with the "De Senectute" and the fourth book of the "AEneid," but it had ceased to be distinctly recognizable as classical, and was only perceived in the higher finish and force of his auctioneering style.† (source)
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*A quotation from the Aeneid signifying a threat.† (source)
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[2] But left him, to remain with Acestes in Sicily—Aeneid, v. 751† (source)
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The Aeneid first tells Homer's Odyssey and then his Iliad.† (source)
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I need not mention that Troy was taken soon after the death of Hector by the stratagem of the wooden horse, the particulars of which are described by Virgil in the second book of the AEneid.† (source)
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Did everybody write the Aeneid?† (source)
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His idea of Latin was Caesar subduing the Gauls and crossing the Rubicon, alea iacta est; and, after that, selections from Virgil's Aeneid — he was fond of the suicide of Dido — or from C)vid's Metamorphoses, the parts where unpleasant things were done by the gods to various young women.† (source)
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