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  Speaker 1: Book fifteen, Part three of Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is our
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  Speaker 1: Recording by David Goldfarb. Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso, translated
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  Speaker 1: by brooks More, Book fifteen, Part three. This wonderful event
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  Speaker 1: surprised the nymphs and filled Hippolytus with wonder just as
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  Speaker 1: great as when the Etrurian plowman saw a fate revealing
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  Speaker 1: clod move of its own accord across the fields, while
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  Speaker 1: not a hand was touching it, till finally it took
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  Speaker 1: a human form without the quality of clauded earth, and
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  Speaker 1: opened its new mouth and spoke, revealing future destinies. The
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  Speaker 1: natives called him Tagis. He was the first who taught
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  Speaker 1: Atrurians to foretell events. They were astonished, even as Romulus
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  Speaker 1: when he observed the spear, which once had grown high
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  Speaker 1: on the palatine, put out new leaves and stand with roots,
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  Speaker 1: not with the iron point which he had driven in.
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  Speaker 1: Not as a spirit then stood there, but as a
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  Speaker 1: rooted tree with limbered twigs, for many to admire while
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  Speaker 1: resting under that surprising shade, or as when Kippus first
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  Speaker 1: observed his horns in the clear stream, he truly saw
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  Speaker 1: them there. Believing he had seen a falsity, he often
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  Speaker 1: touched his forehead with his hand, and so returning touched
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  Speaker 1: the thing he saw. Assured at last that he could
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  Speaker 1: trust his eyes. He stood entranced, as if he had
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  Speaker 1: returned victorious from the conquest of his foes, and raising
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  Speaker 1: eyes and hands towards heaven, he cried, you, Gods above,
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  Speaker 1: whatever is foretold by this great prodigy. If it means good,
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  Speaker 1: then let it be auspicious to my land and the
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  Speaker 1: inhabitants of Quirinus. If ill let that misfortune fall on me.
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  Speaker 1: He made an offering at new altars built of grassy,
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  Speaker 1: thick green turf, with fragrant fires, presenting wine in bowls,
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  Speaker 1: and he took note of panting entrails from new slaughtered
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  Speaker 1: sheep to learn the meaning of the event for him.
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  Speaker 1: When an etrusc concer examined them, he found the evidence
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  Speaker 1: of great events as yet obscure. And when he raised
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  Speaker 1: keen eyes up from the entrails to the horns of Kippus,
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  Speaker 1: O king, all hail, he cried, for in future time,
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  Speaker 1: this country and the Latin towers will live an amish
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  Speaker 1: to you, Kippus and your horns. But you must promptly
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  Speaker 1: put aside delay hasten to enter the wide open gates.
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  Speaker 1: The fates command you. Once received within the city, you
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  Speaker 1: shall be its chosen king, and safely shall enjoy a
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  Speaker 1: lasting reign. Kippis retreated, and he turned his grave eyes
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  Speaker 1: from the city's walls, and said, oh, far, oh, far away,
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  Speaker 1: the righteous gods should drive such omens from me. Better
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  Speaker 1: it would be that I should pass my life in
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  Speaker 1: exile than be seen a king throned in the capital.
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  Speaker 1: Such words he spoke and forthwith he convoked the people
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  Speaker 1: and the grave, and honored senate. But first he veiled
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  Speaker 1: his horns with laurel, which betokens peace. Then, standing on
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  Speaker 1: a mound raised by the valiant troops, he made a
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  Speaker 1: prayer after the ancient mode. And then he said, there
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  Speaker 1: is one here who will be king. If you do
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  Speaker 1: not expel him from your city, I will show him
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  Speaker 1: to you surely by a sign, although I will not
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  Speaker 1: tell his name. He wears horns on his head. The
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  Speaker 1: Augur prophesies that if he enters this your city, he
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  Speaker 1: will give you laws as if you were his slaves.
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  Speaker 1: He might have forced his way within your gates, for
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  Speaker 1: they stand open, but I have hindered him, although nobody
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  Speaker 1: is to him so close as I myself. Good Romans,
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  Speaker 1: then forbid your city to this man, or if you
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  Speaker 1: find that he deserves still worse, than bind him fast
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  Speaker 1: with heavy fetters, or else end your fears by knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the destined tyrant's death. As murmurs which arise among
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  Speaker 1: the groves of pine trees thick above us, when the
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  Speaker 1: fierce east wind is whistling in them, or is sound
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  Speaker 1: produced by breaking waves when it has heard afar off
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  Speaker 1: such the noise made by the crowd. But in that
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  Speaker 1: angry stirring of the throng, one cry could be distinguished,
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  Speaker 1: which is he? And they examined foreheads, and they sought
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  Speaker 1: predicted horns. Kippus then spoke again. The man whom you demand,
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  Speaker 1: he said, is here, and fearless of the people. He
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  Speaker 1: threw back the chaplet from his forehead, so that all
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  Speaker 1: could see his temples plainly wonderful for their two horns.
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  Speaker 1: All then turned down their eyes and uttered groans, and
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  Speaker 1: was it possible they looked unwillingly upon that head famed
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  Speaker 1: for its merit. They could not permit him to remain there,
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  Speaker 1: long deprived of honours, and they placed upon his head
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  Speaker 1: the festive chaplet, and the Senate gave you kippus, since
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  Speaker 1: you never more must come within the walls, a proof
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  Speaker 1: of their esteem. So much land as your oxen and
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  Speaker 1: their plow could circle round from dawn to setting sun. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: they engraved the shapely horns on the bronze pillars of
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  Speaker 1: the city gate, which for long ages kept his name revered.
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  Speaker 1: Relate O muses guardian deities of poets, for you know,
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  Speaker 1: and the remote antiquity conceals it not from you. The
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  Speaker 1: reason why an island which the deep stream of Tiber
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  Speaker 1: closed about, has introduced Corona's child among the deities guarding
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  Speaker 1: the city of famed Romulus. A dire contagion had invested
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  Speaker 1: long the Latin air, and men's pale bodies were deformed
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  Speaker 1: by a consumption that dried up the blood. When frightened
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  Speaker 1: by so many deaths, they found all mortal efforts could
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  Speaker 1: avail them nothing, and physician's skill had no effect. They
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  Speaker 1: sought the aid of heaven. They sent envoys to Delphi,
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  Speaker 1: center of the world, and they entreated Phoebus to give
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  Speaker 1: aid in their distress, and by response, renew their wasting
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  Speaker 1: lives and end a city's woe. While ground and laurels
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  Speaker 1: and the quivers which the god hung there all shook.
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  Speaker 1: The Tripod gave this answer from the deep recesses hid
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  Speaker 1: within the shrine, and stirred with trembling their astonished hearts.
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  Speaker 1: What you were seeking here, o, Romans, you should seek
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  Speaker 1: for nearer, You then seek it nearer. For you do
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  Speaker 1: not need Apollo to relieve your wasting plague. You need
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  Speaker 1: Apollo's son. Go then to him with a good omen
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  Speaker 1: and invite his aid. After the prudent Senate had received
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  Speaker 1: Phoebus Apollo's words, they took much pains to learn what
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  Speaker 1: town the son of Phoebus might inhabit. They despatched ambassadors
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  Speaker 1: under full sail to the coast of Epidorus. When the
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  Speaker 1: curved ships had touched the shore, these men, in haste
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  Speaker 1: went to the Grecian elders there and prayed that Rome
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  Speaker 1: might have the deity whose presence would drive out the
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  Speaker 1: mortal ill from their Alsonian nation, for they knew it
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  Speaker 1: response Unerring had directed them. The councilors, dismayed, could not
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  Speaker 1: agree on their reply. Some thought that aid ought not
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  Speaker 1: to be refused, but many more held back, declaring it
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  Speaker 1: was wise to keep the God for their own safety
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  Speaker 1: and not give away a guardian deity. And while they
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  Speaker 1: talked discussing it, the twilight had expelled the waning day,
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  Speaker 1: and darkness on the earth spread a thick mantle over
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  Speaker 1: the wide world. Then in your sleep, the healing deity appeared,
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  Speaker 1: o Roman leader by your couch. As in his temple
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  Speaker 1: he is used to stand, holding in his left hand
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  Speaker 1: a rustic staff, stroking his long beard with his right,
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  Speaker 1: he seemed to utter from his kindly breast these words,
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  Speaker 1: forget your fears, for I will come to you and
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  Speaker 1: leave my altar. But now look well at the serpent
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  Speaker 1: with its binding folds entwined around this staff, and accurately
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  Speaker 1: mark it with your eyes that you may recognize it.
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  Speaker 1: I will transform myself into this shape, but of a
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  Speaker 1: greater size. I will appear enlarged, and of a magnitude
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  Speaker 1: to which a heavenly being ought to be transformed. The
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  Speaker 1: God departed when he said those words, and sleep went
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  Speaker 1: when the God and words were gone, and genial light
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  Speaker 1: came when the sleep had left. The morning then dispersed
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  Speaker 1: fire given stars. The envoys met together in much doubt
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  Speaker 1: within the temple of the long sought God. They prayed
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  Speaker 1: the God to indicate for them by clear celestial tokens
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  Speaker 1: in what spot he wished to dwell. Scarce had they
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  Speaker 1: ceased the prayer for guidance when the God, all glittering
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  Speaker 1: with gold and as a serpent crest erect, sent forth
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  Speaker 1: a hissing as to notify a quick approach, and in
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  Speaker 1: his coming shook his statue and the altars, and the doors,
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  Speaker 1: the marble pavement, and the gilded roof. Then up to
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  Speaker 1: his breast the serpent stood erect within the temple. He
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  Speaker 1: gazed on all with eyes that sparkled fire. The waiting
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  Speaker 1: multitude was frightened, but the priest, his chaste hair bound
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  Speaker 1: with a white filet, knew the deity. Behold the God,
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  Speaker 1: He cried, it is the God. Think holy thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: walk in reverent silence. All who were present, O, most beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: let us behold you to our benefit, and give aid
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  Speaker 1: to this people that performs your sacred rites. All present
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  Speaker 1: then adored the deity, as bidden by the priest. The
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  Speaker 1: multitude repeated his good words, and the descendant of Vinaeus
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  Speaker 1: gave good omen with their feelings and their speech. Nodding
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  Speaker 1: well pleased and moving his great crest. The god at
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  Speaker 1: once assured them of his favor, and hissed repeatedly with
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  Speaker 1: darting tongue. And then he glided down the polished steps,
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  Speaker 1: turned back his head, and ready to depart, gazed on
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  Speaker 1: the altars he had known for so long, a last
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  Speaker 1: salute to the temple of his love. While all the
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  Speaker 1: people strewed his way with flowers. The great snake wound
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  Speaker 1: in sinuous course along and passing through the middle of
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  Speaker 1: their town, came to the harbor and its curving wall.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped there, and it seemed that he dismissed his train.
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  Speaker 1: In dutiful attendant crowd, and with a placid countenance, he
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  Speaker 1: placed his mighty body in the Ausonian ship, which plainly
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  Speaker 1: showed the great weight of the god. The glad descendants
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  Speaker 1: of Ainaeus all rejoiced, and they sacrificed a bull beside
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  Speaker 1: the harbor, wreathed the ship with flowers, and loosed the
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  Speaker 1: twisted hawsers from the shore. As a soft breeze impelled
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  Speaker 1: the ship within her curving stern. The god reclined his
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  Speaker 1: coils uprising high, and gazed down on the blue Ionian waves.
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  Speaker 1: So wafted by favoring winds, they came in six days
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  Speaker 1: to the shores of Italy. There he was borne past
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  Speaker 1: the Licinian Cape, ennobled by the goddess Juno's shrine and
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  Speaker 1: Scilachian coasts. He left behind Iapygia. Then he shunned Amphriesian
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  Speaker 1: rocks upon the left, and on the other side escaped
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  Speaker 1: Cocynthian crags. He passed near by Romechium and Cowlan and Narikia,
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  Speaker 1: crossed the Sicilian Sea, went through the strait sailed by
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  Speaker 1: Pelorus and the island home of Eolus, and by the
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  Speaker 1: copper mines of Temisa. He turned then toward Leucosia and
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  Speaker 1: towards mild Pistum, famous for the rose. He coasted by
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  Speaker 1: Caprae and around Minerva's promontory and the hills ennobled with
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  Speaker 1: sorrentine vines. From there to Herculaneum and Stabiae, and then Parthenope,
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  Speaker 1: built for soft ease, He sailed near the Cumayan Sibyl's temple.
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  Speaker 1: He passed the warm Spring and Linternum, where the mastic
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  Speaker 1: trees grow, and the river called Volturnus, where thick sand
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  Speaker 1: whirls in the stream, over to sinuesas snow white doves,
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  Speaker 1: and then to Antium and its rocky coast, when, with
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  Speaker 1: all sails full spread, the ship came in the harbor there,
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  Speaker 1: for now the seas grew rough, the god uncoiled his folds, and,
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  Speaker 1: gliding out with sinuous curves and all his mighty length,
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  Speaker 1: entered the temple of his parent, where it skirts that
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  Speaker 1: yellow shore. But when the sea was calm again, the
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  Speaker 1: Epidorian God, departing from his father's shrine where he a
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  Speaker 1: while had shared the sacred residence, reared to a kindred deity,
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  Speaker 1: furrowed the sandy shore with weight of crackling scales. Again,
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  Speaker 1: he climbed into the lofty stern, and near the rudder,
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  Speaker 1: laid his head at rest. There he remained until the
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  Speaker 1: vessel passed by Castrum and Levinium's sacred homes, to where
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  Speaker 1: the Tiber flows into the sea. There all the people
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  Speaker 1: of Rome came rushing out, mothers and fathers, and even
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  Speaker 1: those whose tend your sacred fire. O Trojan, Goddess Vesta
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  Speaker 1: and joyous shouted welcome to the God. Wherever the swift
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  Speaker 1: ship steered through the top, they built up many altars
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  Speaker 1: in a line, so that perfuming frankincense with smoke crackled
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  Speaker 1: along the banks on either hand, and victims made the
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  Speaker 1: keen knives hot with blood. The serpent deity has entered Rome,
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  Speaker 1: the world's new capital, and lifting up his head above
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  Speaker 1: the summit of the mast, looks far and near for
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  Speaker 1: a congenial home. The river there, dividing, flows about a
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  Speaker 1: place known as the Island. On both sides, an equal
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  Speaker 1: stream glides past dry middle ground, And here the serpent
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  Speaker 1: child of Phoebus left the Roman ship, took his own
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  Speaker 1: heavenly form, and brought the morning city health once more.
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  Speaker 1: Apollo's son came to us from abroad. But Caesar is
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  Speaker 1: a god in his own land, the first in war
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  Speaker 1: and peace. He rose by wars which closed in triumphs,
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  Speaker 1: and by civic deeds to glory quickly won. And even
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  Speaker 1: more his offspring's love exalted him as anew, a heavenly
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  Speaker 1: sign and brightly flaming star. Of all the achievements of
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  Speaker 1: great Julius Caesar, not one is more ennobling to his
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  Speaker 1: fame than being father of his glorious son. Was it
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  Speaker 1: more glorious for him to subdue the Britons guarded by
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  Speaker 1: their sheltering sea, or lead his fleet victorious up the
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  Speaker 1: stream seven mouthed of the Papyrus bearing Nile, to bring
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  Speaker 1: beneath the Roman people's rule rebel Numidia, Libyan Juba and
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  Speaker 1: strong Pontots proud of Mithridates fame to have some triumphs,
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  Speaker 1: and deserved far more than to be father of so
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  Speaker 1: great a man with whom as ruler of the human race, O, Gods,
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  Speaker 1: you bless us past all reckoning, and lest that son
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  Speaker 1: should come from mortal seed, Julius Caesar must change and
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  Speaker 1: be a god. When the golden mother of Ainaeus was
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  Speaker 1: aware of this and saw a grievous end plotted against
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  Speaker 1: her high priest, saw the armed conspiracy preparing for his death,
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  Speaker 1: with pallid face, she met each god and said, look
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  Speaker 1: with what might this plot prepares itself against my cause?
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  Speaker 1: With how much guile it dooms the head which is
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  Speaker 1: the last that I have left from old time Yulus,
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  Speaker 1: Prince and heir of Troy. Shall I alone be harassed
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  Speaker 1: through all time by fear well grounded? First the son
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  Speaker 1: of Tydeus wound me with his Caledonian spear, and then
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  Speaker 1: I tremble at the tottering walls of ill defended Troy.
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  Speaker 1: I watch my son driven in long wanderings, tossed upon
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  Speaker 1: the sea, descending to the realm of silent shades, and
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  Speaker 1: waging war with Turnus. Or if I should speak the
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  Speaker 1: truth with Juno, why do I recall disasters of my
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  Speaker 1: race from long ago? The present dread forbids my looking
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  Speaker 1: back at ills now past, See how the wicked swords
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  Speaker 1: are wetted for the crime. Forbid it. Now I pray
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  Speaker 1: you and prevent the deed. Let not the priests warm
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  Speaker 1: blood quench vestal fires. Such words as these full of
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  Speaker 1: her anxious thoughts, Venus proclaimed through all the heavens in Vain.
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  Speaker 1: The gods were moved, and since they could not break
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  Speaker 1: the ancient sister's iron decree, they gave instead clear portence
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  Speaker 1: of approaching woe. It is declared. Resounding arms heard from
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  Speaker 1: the black clouds, and unearthly trumpet blasts and clarions heard
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  Speaker 1: through all the highest heavens forewarned men of the crime.
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  Speaker 1: The sad Son's face gave to the frightened world a
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  Speaker 1: livid light, and in the night time torches seemed to
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  Speaker 1: burn amid the stars, and often drops of blood fell
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  Speaker 1: in rain showers. Then Lucifer shone blue, with all his
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  Speaker 1: visage stained by darksome rust. The chariot of the moon
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  Speaker 1: was sprinkled with red blood. The Stygian owl gave to
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  Speaker 1: the world ill omens. In a thousand places, tears were
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  Speaker 1: shed by the ivory statues. Dirges, too are said to
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  Speaker 1: have been heard and threatening words by unknown speakers, and
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  Speaker 1: the sacred groves no victim gave an omen of good life.
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  Speaker 1: The fibers showed great tumults imminent. The livers cut off
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  Speaker 1: edge was found among the entrails in the forum, it
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  Speaker 1: is said, and round men's homes and temples of the gods.
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  Speaker 1: Dogs howled all through the night, and silent shades wandered abroad,
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  Speaker 1: and earthquakes shook the city. But portents of the gods
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  Speaker 1: could not avert the plots of men and stay approaching
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  Speaker 1: fate into a temple. Naked swords were brought into the
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  Speaker 1: Senate house. No other place in all our city was
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  Speaker 1: considered fit for perpetrating such a dreadful crime. With both hands,
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  Speaker 1: Cytheria beat her breast, and in a cloud she strove
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  Speaker 1: to hide the last of great Aeneas line, as in
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  Speaker 1: times past she had hid Paris from fierce Menelaeus Aeneas
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  Speaker 1: from the blade of Diamed. But Jove her father cautioned
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  Speaker 1: her and said, do you, my daughter, without aid alone,
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  Speaker 1: attempt to change the fixed degrees of fate? Unaided? You
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  Speaker 1: may enter the abode of the Three Sisters, and can
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  Speaker 1: witness there a register of deeds the future brings. These
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  Speaker 1: wrought of brass and solid iron, with vast labor, are
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  Speaker 1: unchangeable through all eternity, and have no weakening fears of
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  Speaker 1: thunder shocks from heaven, nor from the rage of lightnings.
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  Speaker 1: They are perfectly secure from all destruction. You will surely
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  Speaker 1: find the destinies of your descendants there, engraved in everlasting adamant.
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  Speaker 1: Tis certain I myself have read them there, and I
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  Speaker 1: with care have marked them in my mind. I will
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  Speaker 1: repeat them so that you may have unerring knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: those future days. Venus, the man on whose behalf you
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  Speaker 1: are so anxious already has completed his allotted time. The
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  Speaker 1: years are ended which he owed to life on earth.
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  Speaker 1: You with his son, who now, as heir to his estate,
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  Speaker 1: must bear the burden of that government, will cause him
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  Speaker 1: as a deity to reach the heavens and to be
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  Speaker 1: worshiped in the temples. Here, the valiant son will plan
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  Speaker 1: revenge on those who killed his father, and will have
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  Speaker 1: our aid in all his battles. The defeated walls of
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  Speaker 1: scarred Mutina, which he will besize, shall sue for peace.
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  Speaker 1: Forarsalia's plain will dread his power, and Macedonian Philippy be
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  Speaker 1: drenched with blood a second time. The name of one
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  Speaker 1: acclaimed as great shall be subdued in the Sicilian waves.
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  Speaker 1: Then Egypt's queen, wife of the Roman general Antony shall fall.
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  Speaker 1: While vainly trusting in his word, while vainly threatening that
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  Speaker 1: our capital must be submissive to Canopa's power, Why should
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  Speaker 1: I mention all the barbarous lands and nations east and
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  Speaker 1: west by Ocean's rim, Whatever habitable earth contains shall bow
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  Speaker 1: to him. The sea shall serve his will. With peace
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  Speaker 1: established over all the lands, He then will turn his
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  Speaker 1: mind to civil rule, and as a prudent legislator will
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  Speaker 1: enact wise laws, and he will regulate the manners of
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  Speaker 1: his people by his own example. Looking forward to the
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  Speaker 1: days of future time and of posterity, he will command
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  Speaker 1: the offspring born of his devoted wife to assume the
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  Speaker 1: imperial name and the burden of his cares. Nor till
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  Speaker 1: his aige shall equal Nester's years, will he ascend to
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  Speaker 1: heavenly dwellings and his kindred stars. Meanwhile, transform the soul
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  Speaker 1: which shall be reft from this doomed body, to a
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  Speaker 1: starry light that always god like Julius may look down
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  Speaker 1: in future from his heavenly residence upon our forum and
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  Speaker 1: our capital. Jupiter hardly had pronounced these words when kindly Venus,
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  Speaker 1: although seen by none, stood in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: Senate House, and caught from the dying limbs and trunk
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  Speaker 1: of her own Caesar his departing soul. She did not
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  Speaker 1: give it time so that it could dissolve in air,
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  Speaker 1: but bore it quickly up toward all the stars of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and on the way she saw it gleam and blaze,
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  Speaker 1: and set it free. Above the moon. It mounted into Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: leaving behind a long and fiery trail, and as a
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  Speaker 1: star it glittered in the sky. There wondering at the
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  Speaker 1: younger Caesar's deeds, Julius confessed they were superior to all
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  Speaker 1: of his, and he rejoiced because his son was greater
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  Speaker 1: even than himself. Although the son forbade men to regard
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  Speaker 1: his own deeds, as the mightier fame that moves free
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  Speaker 1: and untrammeled by the laws of men, preferred him even
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  Speaker 1: against his own desire, and in that one point disobeyed
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  Speaker 1: his will. And so great Actress yields to the greater
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  Speaker 1: fame of Agamemnon. Aegeus yields to Theseus, and Pelias to Achilles.
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  Speaker 1: Or to name a parallel befitting these two gods, so
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  Speaker 1: Saturn yields to Jove. Now Jupiter rules in high heavens
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  Speaker 1: and is the suzerin over the waters in the world
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  Speaker 1: of shades, and now Augustus rules in all the lands.
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  Speaker 1: So each is both a father and a god. Gods
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  Speaker 1: who once guarded Arnaeus when both swords and fire gave way,
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  Speaker 1: and native gods of Italy and father Quirinus Patron of Rome,
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  Speaker 1: and Eugratavus too, the sire of Quirinus, the invincible, and
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  Speaker 1: Vesta hallowed among Caesar's gods, and Phoebus ever worshiped at
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  Speaker 1: his hearth, and Jupiter, who rules the citadel high on
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  Speaker 1: Tarpeia's cliff, and other gods, all gods to whom a
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  Speaker 1: poet rightfully and with all piety may make appeal. Far
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  Speaker 1: be that day postponed beyond our time, when Great Augustus
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  Speaker 1: shall forsake the earth which he now governs, and mount
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  Speaker 1: up to Heaven from that far height to hear his
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  Speaker 1: people's prayers. And now I have completed a great work,
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  Speaker 1: which not Jove's anger, and not fire nor steel, nor
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  Speaker 1: fast consuming time can sweep away. Whenever it will, let
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  Speaker 1: that day come, which has dominion only over this mortal frame,
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  Speaker 1: and end for me the uncertain course of life. Yet
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  Speaker 1: in my better part I shall be borne immortal, far
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  Speaker 1: above the stars on high, and mine shall be a
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  Speaker 1: name indelible. Wherever Roman power extends her sway over the
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  Speaker 1: conquer'd lands, I shall be read by lips of men.
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  Speaker 1: If poet's prophecies have any truth, through all the coming
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  Speaker 1: years of future ages, I shall live in fame. End
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  Speaker 1: of Book fifteen, Part three, End of Metamorphosies by Publius
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  Speaker 1: Ovidius Naso, translated by brooks More