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... hand against the sacred towers , he has terrified the city he has terrified the nations , lest the grievous age of Pyrrha , 10 complaining of prodigies till then unheard of , should return , when Proteus drove all his [ marine ] herd to ...
... hand against the sacred towers , he has terrified the city he has terrified the nations , lest the grievous age of Pyrrha , 10 complaining of prodigies till then unheard of , should return , when Proteus drove all his [ marine ] herd to ...
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... hand ! What a destruction art thou preparing for the Trojan nation ! Even now Pallas is fitting her helmet , and her shield , and her chariot , and her fury . In vain , looking fierce through the patronage of Venus , will you comb your ...
... hand ! What a destruction art thou preparing for the Trojan nation ! Even now Pallas is fitting her helmet , and her shield , and her chariot , and her fury . In vain , looking fierce through the patronage of Venus , will you comb your ...
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... hands on you , who are by no means a match for him ; and should rend the chaplet that is platted in your hair , and your inoffensive garment . ODE XVIII . TO VARUS . O VARUS , you can plant no tree preferable to the sacred vine , about ...
... hands on you , who are by no means a match for him ; and should rend the chaplet that is platted in your hair , and your inoffensive garment . ODE XVIII . TO VARUS . O VARUS , you can plant no tree preferable to the sacred vine , about ...
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... hand huge spikes and wedges ; nor is the unyielding clamp absent , nor the melted lead . Thee Hope reverences , and ... hands , out of reverence to the gods ? What altars have they spared ? O mayest thou forge anew our blunted swords on ...
... hand huge spikes and wedges ; nor is the unyielding clamp absent , nor the melted lead . Thee Hope reverences , and ... hands , out of reverence to the gods ? What altars have they spared ? O mayest thou forge anew our blunted swords on ...
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... hands of the conqueror , and survive the ruin of his country , he slew himself . WATSON . Rettulit inferias . The word rettulit is here taken in the same sense as in the proverb par pari referre , and inferias alludes to a custom of the ...
... hands of the conqueror , and survive the ruin of his country , he slew himself . WATSON . Rettulit inferias . The word rettulit is here taken in the same sense as in the proverb par pari referre , and inferias alludes to a custom of the ...
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