The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
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by Virgil
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I sing of arms and of the man,
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Aeneas, and praise of Augustus
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piety
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Devotion of duty
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As when disorder arises among the people of a great city and the common mob runs riot, wild passion finds weapons for men’s hands and torches and rocks start flying;
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Reference to Augustus
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he pointed to the altar where he had been killed and revealed the whole horror of the crime that had been hidden in their house.
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Sacrilege
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and my fame has reached beyond the skies.
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He knows he’s famous
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following the destiny which had been given to me,
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He has no choice
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bar in full sail.
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Crossing the Barbour lines
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and he moved on through the middle of the people, hedged about by the miraculous cloud, 440 and no one saw him.
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bronze doors
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Bronze repetition
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Hesperia.
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The western land