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Speaker 1: Book eight, Part two of the Eneid. This is a
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Speaker 1: Reading by lash Rolander, The Nieid by Publius Virgilius Marrow,
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Speaker 1: translated by John Dryden, Book eight, Arcadian Allies, Part two.
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Speaker 1: Thus walking on, he spoke and showed the gate since
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Speaker 1: called Carmental by the Roman state, where stood an altar's
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Speaker 1: sacred to the name of Old Carmenta, the prophetic name
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Speaker 1: who to her son foretold their Nian race sublime in fame,
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Speaker 1: and Rome's imperial place. Then choose the forest, which in
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Speaker 1: after times fierce Romulus for perpetrated crimes, a sacred refuge.
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Speaker 1: Mate with this the shrine, where palm below the rock
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Speaker 1: had rights divine. Then tells of argus death, his murdered guest,
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Speaker 1: whose grave and tomb his innocence attest. Thence to steep
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Speaker 1: Tarpeian rocky leads, now roofed with gold, then thatch'd with
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Speaker 1: homely reeds, a reverent fair. Such superstition reigns among the
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Speaker 1: route even then possess'd the swains. Some god, they knew
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Speaker 1: what god they could not tell. Did there amidst the
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Speaker 1: sacred horror dwell the Arcadian thought him Joe, and said
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Speaker 1: they saw the mighty thunderer with majestic ave, who took
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Speaker 1: his shield and dealt his bolts around and scattered tempests
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Speaker 1: on the teeming ground. Then saw two heaps of ruins.
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Speaker 1: Once they stood to stately towns. On either side the
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Speaker 1: flood Saturnius and young Nicholas remains, and either place the
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Speaker 1: founder's name retains. Discoursing. Thus together they resort where poor
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Speaker 1: Evander kept his country court. They view'd the ground of
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Speaker 1: Rome's litigious hall once oxen load, where now the lawyer's ball.
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Speaker 1: Then stooping through the narrow gate, they press'd. When thus
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Speaker 1: the king bespoke his troy and guest, mean, as it
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Speaker 1: is this palace and this door receiv'd Alquedes. Then a
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Speaker 1: conqueror dare to be poor except our homely food, which
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Speaker 1: feasted him and emulate a god. Then underneath a lowly
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Speaker 1: roof he led the wary prince and laid him on
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Speaker 1: a bed, then stuffing leaves with hides of bears o'erspread.
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Speaker 1: Now knight had shed her silver due surround and whither
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Speaker 1: sable wings embraced the ground. When Love's fair God is
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Speaker 1: anxious for her son, new tumult's racing, A new war's begun.
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Speaker 1: Couch'd with her husband in his golden bed, with these
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Speaker 1: alluring words invokes his aid, and that her pleasing speech
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Speaker 1: his mind may move, inspires each accent with its charms
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Speaker 1: of love, while cruel Fate conspir'd with Grecian powers to
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Speaker 1: level with the ground that Troyan towers. I'd ask not
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Speaker 1: aid the unhappy to restore, nor did the succor of
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Speaker 1: thy skill implore, nor urge the labors of my lord
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Speaker 1: in vain, a sinking empire longer to sustain, though much
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Speaker 1: I owed to Priam's house and more the dangers of
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Speaker 1: aneas did Deplore. But now, by Jove's command and Fate's decree,
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Speaker 1: his race is doom'd to reign in Italy. With humble suit.
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Speaker 1: I beg thy needful art o still propitious power that
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Speaker 1: rules my heart. A mother kneels a suppliant for her
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Speaker 1: son by tetis and Aurora, thou at one to forge
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Speaker 1: impenetrable shields and grace with fated arms. A less illustrious
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Speaker 1: race Behold, what haughty nations are combined against the relics
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Speaker 1: of the Fhreagian kind. With fire and sword, my people
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Speaker 1: to destroy and conquer venus twice in conquering Troy, she said,
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Speaker 1: and straight her arms of snowy yu about her unresolving husband.
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Speaker 1: Through her soft embraces, soon infuse desire his bones and marrow.
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Speaker 1: Sudden warmth inspire, and all that God had feels the
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Speaker 1: wonted fire not half so swift, the rattling thunder fly
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Speaker 1: or forky lightning flash along the skies. The goddess, proud
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Speaker 1: of her successful whiles and conscious of her form in
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Speaker 1: secret smiles. Then thus the power obnoxious to her charms
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Speaker 1: panting and half dissolving in her arms. Why seek your
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Speaker 1: reasons for a cause so just, or your own beauties
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Speaker 1: or my love to trust? Long since had you required
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Speaker 1: my helpful hand, the artifisher and art you might command
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Speaker 1: to labor arms for Troy, nor Jove nor Fate confine
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Speaker 1: their empire to so short a date. And if you
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Speaker 1: now desire you wars to wage, my skill I promise,
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Speaker 1: and my pains engage whatever melting metals can conspire or
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Speaker 1: breathing bellows or the forming fire is freely yours. Your
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Speaker 1: anxious fears remove and think no task is difficult to love. Trembling,
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Speaker 1: he spoke, and eager over charms, he snatch'd the willing
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Speaker 1: goddess to his arms, till in her lap infused, he
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Speaker 1: lay possess'd of full desire, and sunk to pleasing rest. Now,
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Speaker 1: when the night her middle race had rowed, and his
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Speaker 1: first slumber had refresh'd the god the time when early
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Speaker 1: housewives leave the bed, when living embers on the hearth.
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Speaker 1: They spread supply the lamp and call the maids to rise.
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Speaker 1: With yawning mouths, and with half opened eyes reply the
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Speaker 1: distuff by the winking light, and to their daily labor
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Speaker 1: at their night. Thus frugally they earned their children's bread,
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Speaker 1: and uncorrupted keep the nuptial bed not less concern'd, nor
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Speaker 1: at a later hour, rose from his downy couch the
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Speaker 1: forging power sacred to all cans name an isle. There
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Speaker 1: lay betwixt Cecilia's coast and leparay, raised high on smoking rocks,
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Speaker 1: and deep below in hollow caves. The fires of Etna glow.
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Speaker 1: The ki clips here their heavy hammer, steel, loud strokes,
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Speaker 1: and hissings of tormented steel are heard around the boiling waters,
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Speaker 1: roar and smoky flames through fuming tunnels. Soar hither the
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Speaker 1: father of the fire by night throw the brown air,
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Speaker 1: precipitates his flight on their eternal anvils. Here he found
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Speaker 1: the brethren beating, and the blows go round. A load
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Speaker 1: of pointless thunder. Now there lies before their hands to
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Speaker 1: ripen for their skies. These starts for angry Jove. They
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Speaker 1: daily cast consumed on mortals with prodigious waste through rays
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Speaker 1: of rhythen rain of fire. Three more win in southern
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Speaker 1: winds and cloudy store as many parts the dreadful mixture
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Speaker 1: frame and fears are added, and avenging flame inferior ministers
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Speaker 1: for Mars repair his broken axle, trees and blunted war,
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Speaker 1: and send him forth again with furbished arms to wake
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Speaker 1: the lazy war. With trumpet's loud alarms. The rest refresh
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Speaker 1: the scaly snake that fold the shield of pallace and
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Speaker 1: renew their gold full On the crest of Gorgon's head
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Speaker 1: they place with eyes that roll in death, and with
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Speaker 1: distorted face. My sons said, Vulcan, set your task aside
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Speaker 1: your strength and master's skill must now be tried. Arms
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Speaker 1: for a hero forge arms that require your force, your speed,
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Speaker 1: and all your forming fire, he said. They set their
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Speaker 1: former work aside, and their new toils, with eager haste,
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Speaker 1: divide a flood of molten silver, brass and gold and
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Speaker 1: deadly steel in the large furnace. Roll'd of this. Their
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Speaker 1: artful hands a shield prepare alone sufficient to sustain the wire.
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Speaker 1: Seven orbs within a spacious round they close. One stirs
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Speaker 1: the fire, and one the bellows blows. The hissing steel
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Speaker 1: is in the smithy, drown'd. The grot with beaten animals
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Speaker 1: groans around by turns, their arms advance in equal time
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Speaker 1: by turns, their hands descend, and hammer's chime. They turn
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Speaker 1: the glowing mass with crooked tongs. The fairy work proceeds
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Speaker 1: with rustic songs, while at the Limnian gods command they
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Speaker 1: urge their labors thus and ply the Aulian forge. The
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Speaker 1: cheerful morn salutes, evander eyes, and songs of chirping birds
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Speaker 1: invite to rise. He leaves his slowly bed, his buskin's
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Speaker 1: meat above his ankle, sandals sheath his feet. He sets
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Speaker 1: his trusty sword upon his side, and o'er his shoulder
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Speaker 1: throws a panther's hide to menial dogs before the master prest.
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Speaker 1: Thus clad and guarded us, he seeks his kingly guest.
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Speaker 1: Mindful of promised aid, he mens his pace, but meets
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Speaker 1: Aeneas in the middle space. Jan Pallas did his father's
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Speaker 1: steps attend, and true Acatus waited on his friend. They
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Speaker 1: joined their hands a secret seat. They choose the Arcadian first.
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Speaker 1: Their former talk renews undaunted, Prince, I never can believe
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Speaker 1: the Troyan empire lost, while you survive, command the assistance
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Speaker 1: of a faithful friend, but feeble others succors. I consent
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Speaker 1: our narrow kingdom. Here the tea were bounds. That other side,
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Speaker 1: the Latian state surrounds, insults our walls and wastes our
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Speaker 1: fruitful grounds. But mighty nations, I prepare to join their
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Speaker 1: arms with yours and aid your just design. You come,
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Speaker 1: as by your better genius, scent and fortune seems to
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Speaker 1: favor your intent. Not far from hence there stands a
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Speaker 1: hilly town of ancient buildings and of high renown, torn
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Speaker 1: from the Tuscans by the Lydian race, who gave the
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Speaker 1: name of Carie to the place once agaillina call'd it
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Speaker 1: flourish'd long in pride of wealth and warlike people, strong,
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Speaker 1: till cursed missentious in a fatal hour, assume the crown
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Speaker 1: with arbitrary power. What words can paint those execrable times
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Speaker 1: that objects sufferings and the tyrant's crimes that blood thus murders,
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Speaker 1: O ye gods replace on his own head and on
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Speaker 1: his impious race. The living and the dead at his
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Speaker 1: command were couple face to face and hand to hand,
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Speaker 1: till choked with stench in lost embraces, Tide the lingering
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Speaker 1: wretches pind away and died, Thus plung'd in ills and
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Speaker 1: meditating more the people's patience. Tide no longer bore the
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Speaker 1: raging monster, But with arms beset his house and vengeance
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Speaker 1: and destruction threat, they fire his place. While the flame ascends,
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Speaker 1: they force his cards and execute his friends. He cleaves
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Speaker 1: the crowd and favor'd by the knight to turn as
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Speaker 1: friendly court directs his flight by just revenge, the Tuscans
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Speaker 1: set on fire with arms that king to punishment require
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Speaker 1: the numerous troops now mustered on the strand. My counsel
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Speaker 1: shall submit to your command. The navy swarms upon the coasts.
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Speaker 1: They cry to hoist their anchors, but the gods deny
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Speaker 1: an ancient augur skill'd in future fate. With these foreboding
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Speaker 1: words restrains their hate. Ye brave in arms, yelidian blood,
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Speaker 1: the flower of Tuscan youth, and choice of all their power,
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Speaker 1: whom just revenge against mesentious arms, To seek your tyrant's
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Speaker 1: death by lawful arms. Know this, no native of our
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Speaker 1: land may lead. These powerful people seek a foreign head
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Speaker 1: out with these words in camps they still abide and
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Speaker 1: wait with longing looks their promis'd guide. Tarkon, the Tuscan chief,
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Speaker 1: to me, has sent their crowned and every regal ornament.
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Speaker 1: The people join their own with his desire and all
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Speaker 1: my conduct as their king require. But the chill blood
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Speaker 1: that creeps within my veins, and age and listless limbs
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Speaker 1: unfit for pains, and a soul conscious of its own decay,
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Speaker 1: have forced me to refuse imperial sway my palace. Were
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Speaker 1: more fit to mount the throne, and should. But he
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Speaker 1: is a sabin mother's son and half a native. But
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Speaker 1: in you combine a manly vigor and a foreign line,
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Speaker 1: where fate and smiling fortune show the way, pursue the
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Speaker 1: ready path to sovereign sway the staff of my declining days,
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Speaker 1: my son shall make your good or ill success his
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Speaker 1: own in fighting fields. From you shall learn to dare
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Speaker 1: and serve the hard apprenticeship of war, your matchless courage
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Speaker 1: and your conduct view, and early shall begin to admire
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Speaker 1: and copy you. Besides two hundred horse he shall command,
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Speaker 1: though few, a warlick and well chosen band. These in
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Speaker 1: my name are listed, and my son, as many more,
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Speaker 1: has added in his own scarce. Had he said a
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Speaker 1: Cartes and his guest, with downcast eyes, their silent grief expressed,
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Speaker 1: who short of succors and in deep despair, shook at
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Speaker 1: the dismal prospect of the war. But his bright mother,
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Speaker 1: from a breaking cloud, to cheer her issue, thundered thrice aloud.
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Speaker 1: Thri's forky lightning flashed along the sky, and to reign
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Speaker 1: a trumpet's thrice were heard on high. Then, gazing up
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Speaker 1: repeated peals they hear, and in a heaven serene, refulgent
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Speaker 1: arms appear, reddening the skies and glittering all around. The
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Speaker 1: tempered metals clash and yield a silver sound. The rest
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Speaker 1: stood trembling, struck with ave Divine and nea Us only
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Speaker 1: conscious to the sign presaged the event and joyful view
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Speaker 1: above the accomplished promise of the Queen of Love. Then
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Speaker 1: to the Arcadian king, this prodigy, dismiss your fear belongs
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Speaker 1: alone to me. Heaven calls me to the war. The
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Speaker 1: expected sign is given of promised aid and arms. Divine,
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Speaker 1: my goddess mother, whose indulgent care foresaw the dangers of
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Speaker 1: the growing were this omen gave when bright Volcanian arms
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Speaker 1: faded from force of steel by Stygian charms suspended shone
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Speaker 1: on high. She then foreshowed approaching fights and fields to
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Speaker 1: float in blood. Turners shall dearly pay for faith for
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Speaker 1: sworn and corps and swords and shields on Tiber born
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Speaker 1: shall choke his flood. Now sound the loud alarms and
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Speaker 1: Latsian troops. Prepare your pertured arms, he said, and rising
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Speaker 1: from his homely throne, the solemn rites of Hercules begone,
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Speaker 1: and on his altars wake the sleeping fires. Then cheerful
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Speaker 1: to his household, God's retires their offers chosen, sheep their
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Speaker 1: Cardian king, and try and youth the same Oblatian spring.
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Speaker 1: Next of his men and ships. He makes review, draws
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Speaker 1: out the best and ablest of the crew down with
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Speaker 1: a falling stream. The refuse run to race with joyful news.
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Speaker 1: His drooping son steeds are prepared to mount the troy
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Speaker 1: and band who wait their leader to the tree in
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Speaker 1: a land a sprightly, coarser, fairer than the rest. The
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Speaker 1: king himself presents his royal guest a lions hide his
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Speaker 1: back and limbs in fold, precious with studied work and
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Speaker 1: palls of gold. Fame through the little city spreads aloud
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Speaker 1: the intended march amid the fearful crowd. The matrons beat
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Speaker 1: their breasts, dissolve in tears, and double their devotion in
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Speaker 1: their fears. The war at hand appears with more affright,
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Speaker 1: and rises every moment to the sight. Then old Evander,
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Speaker 1: with a close embrace, strain'd his departing friend, and tears
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Speaker 1: overflow his face. Would heaven, said he my strength and
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Speaker 1: youth recall such as I was beneath prinestes wall. Then
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Speaker 1: when I made the foremost foes retire and set whole
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Speaker 1: heaps of conquered shields on fire. When he reelus in
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Speaker 1: single fight, I slow whom with three lives Feronia did endure,
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Speaker 1: and thrice I sent him too the Stygian shore, till
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Speaker 1: the last ebbing soul return'd no more such if I
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Speaker 1: stood renew'd, Not these alarms nor death should rend me
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Speaker 1: from my palace's arms, Nor proud Messentius, thus unpunish'd boast
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Speaker 1: his rapes and murders on the Tuscan coast. Ye, Gods,
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Speaker 1: an mighty jove in pity, bring relief and hear a
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Speaker 1: father and a king. If fate and you reserve these
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Speaker 1: eyes to see my son return with peace and victory.
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Speaker 1: If the loved boy shall bless his father's sight, if
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Speaker 1: we shall meet again with more delight, then draw my
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Speaker 1: life in length. Let me sustain in hopes of embrace
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Speaker 1: the worst of pain. But if your hard decrease, which
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Speaker 1: oh I dread have doomed to death his undeserving head,
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Speaker 1: this o, this very moment, let me die, while hopes
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Speaker 1: and fears in equal balance, lie, While yet possessed of
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Speaker 1: all his youthful charms, I strain him close within these
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Speaker 1: aged arms. Before that fatal news, my soul shall wound,
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Speaker 1: he said, and swooning, sunk upon the ground, his servants
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Speaker 1: bore him off and softly laid his languished limbs upon
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Speaker 1: his homely bed. The horsemen march. The gates are open
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Speaker 1: wide eneas at their head a carter's by his side.
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Speaker 1: Next these the troy and leaders rode along. Last follows
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Speaker 1: in the rear, dear Cargeon's throng, young Pallas shone conspicuous
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Speaker 1: o'er the rest gilded, his arms embroidered was his west.
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Speaker 1: So from the seas exerts its radiant head, the star
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Speaker 1: by whom the lights of heaven are lead shakes from
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Speaker 1: his rosy locks. The pearly juice dispels the darkness and
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Speaker 1: the dairy news. The trembling wives, the walls, and Tiret's
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Speaker 1: crowd and follow with their eyes the dusty cloud, which
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Speaker 1: winds disperse by fits and shrew from far the blaze
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Speaker 1: of arms and shields and shining war. The troops, drawn
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Speaker 1: up in beautifully array o'er hearthy plains pursue the ready way.
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Speaker 1: Repeated peals or shouts are heard around the neighing courses
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Speaker 1: answer to the sound and shake with horny hoofs. The
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Speaker 1: solid ground, a greenswood shade for long religion known, stands
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Speaker 1: by the streams that wash. The Tuscan town encompast round
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Speaker 1: with gloomy hills abough which add a holy horror to
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Speaker 1: the growl. The first inhabitants of Grecian blood that sacred
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Speaker 1: forest to Silvanu's vout the guardian of their flocks and fields,
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Speaker 1: and pay their due a devotions on his annual day.
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Speaker 1: Not far from hence along the river side intents secure
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Speaker 1: the Tuscan troops abide by Tarkan lead. Now from a
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Speaker 1: rising ground, Eneas cast his wandering eyes around, and all
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Speaker 1: the Terina army had in sight stretch'd on the spacious
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Speaker 1: plain from left to right. Thither his warlike train, the
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Speaker 1: troy and lead refreshed his men and wearied horses fed. Meantime,
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Speaker 1: the mother goddess, crowned with charms, breaks through the clouds
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Speaker 1: and brings the fated arms within a winding veil, she
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Speaker 1: finds her son on the cool river's banks, Retired alone.
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Speaker 1: She shews her heav'nly form without skies, and gives herself
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Speaker 1: to his desiring eyes. Behold, she said, perform'd in ev'ry
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Speaker 1: part my promise made, and Vulcans labor'd art. Now seek
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Speaker 1: secure the Lattian enemy, and the haughty turners to the fields. Defy,
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Speaker 1: she said, and having first a son, embraced the radiant
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Speaker 1: arms beneath an oak she placed. Proud of the gift,
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Speaker 1: he rolled his greedy side around the work, and gazed
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Speaker 1: with vast delight. He lifts, he turns, He poises, and
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Speaker 1: admires the crested hen that vomits. Radiant fires his hands
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Speaker 1: the fatal sword and corselet hold one keen with tempered steel,
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Speaker 1: one stiff with gold, both ample, flaming both and beamy bright,
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Speaker 1: so shines a cloud. When edg'd with adverse light, he
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Speaker 1: shakes the point despair, and longs to try the plated
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Speaker 1: cushis on his manly thigh, But most admires the shield's
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Speaker 1: mysterious mold and Roman triumphs rising on the gold. For
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Speaker 1: these embossed the heavenly smith had wrought not in the
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Speaker 1: rolls of future fate, untaught the wars in order, and
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Speaker 1: the rays divine of warriors issuing from the Julian line.
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Speaker 1: The cave of marsh was dress'd with mossy greens. There
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Speaker 1: By the wolf were laid the marshal twins intrepid on
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Speaker 1: her swelling dugs. They hung the foster dam lulled out
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Speaker 1: her fawning tongue. They sucked secure while bending back her head,
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Speaker 1: she lick'd their tender limbs and formed them as they fed.
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Speaker 1: Not far from thence new Rome appears, with games projected
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Speaker 1: for the rape of Sabin dames. The pit resounds were
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Speaker 1: shrieks of wa war succeeds for breach of public faith
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Speaker 1: and unexampled deeds. Here for revenge, the Sabin troops contend
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Speaker 1: the Romans there with arms, the prey defend. Wearied with
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Speaker 1: Tedius war at length, they cease, and both the kings
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Speaker 1: and kingdoms flight the peace. The friendly chiefs before Joe's
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Speaker 1: altar stand both armed, with each a charger in his hand.
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Speaker 1: A faty sow for sacrifice is led with imprecations on
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Speaker 1: the perjured head. Near this, the traitor Methius, stretched between
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Speaker 1: for Fiery's deeds, is dragged along the green by Tullus Doom.
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Speaker 1: The brambles drink his blood, and his thorn limbs are left.
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Speaker 1: The vulturous food there Pourcina to Rome proud Tarquin brings,
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Speaker 1: and would by force restore the banished kings. One tyrant
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Speaker 1: for his fellow tyrant fights. The Roman youth asserted their
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Speaker 1: native rites before the town. The Tuscan army lies to
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Speaker 1: win by famine or by fraud's surprise. Their king, half threatening,
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Speaker 1: half disdaining, stood while cockles broke the bridge and stemm'd
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Speaker 1: the flood. The captive maids their tempt the raging tide
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Speaker 1: scrap'd from their chains, with celia for their guide. High
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Speaker 1: on a rock, heroic Manlius stood to guard the temple
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Speaker 1: and the temple's god. Then Rome was poor, and there
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Speaker 1: you might behold the palace thatch'd with straw, now roof'd
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Speaker 1: with gold. The silver goose before the shining gait there
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Speaker 1: flew and by her cackle sav'd the state. She told
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Speaker 1: the Gauls approach. The approaching Gauls, obscure in night, ascend
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Speaker 1: and seized the walls. The gold assembled well their yellow
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Speaker 1: hair and gold and chains on their white necks. They wear,
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Speaker 1: gold are their vests, long alpine spears they wheel, and
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Speaker 1: their left arm sustains a length of sheet hard by
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Speaker 1: the leaping salient priests advance and naked through the streets.
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Speaker 1: The mad lupersidants in caps of wool. The targets dropped
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Speaker 1: from heaven. Her modest matrons in soft litters, driven to
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Speaker 1: pay their vows in solemn pomp, appear, and odorous gums
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Speaker 1: in their chaste hands they bear far hence removed. The
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Speaker 1: stygian seats are seen, pains of the damned and punished.
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Speaker 1: Cataline hung on a rock the traitor, and around the
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Speaker 1: furies hissing from the nether ground. Apart from these, the
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Speaker 1: happy souls he draws, and Carter's holy ghost dispensing laws.
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Speaker 1: Betwixt the quarters flows a good and sea, but foaming
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Speaker 1: surges there in silver play. The dancing dolphins, with their tails,
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Speaker 1: divide the glittering waves and cut the precious tide. Amid
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Speaker 1: the main two mighty fleets a gauge their brazen beaks
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Speaker 1: opposed with equal rage. Axioms surveys the well disputed price.
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Speaker 1: Leve Cart's watry plain with foamy billows fries. Young Caesar
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Speaker 1: on the stern in armor bright here leads the Roman
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Speaker 1: and their gods to fight. His beamy temples, shoot their
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Speaker 1: flames afar and o'er his head is hung. The Julian
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Speaker 1: star Agrippa seconds him with prosperous gales and with propitious gods.
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Speaker 1: His foes assails a naval crown that binds his mandy brows.
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Speaker 1: The happy fortune of the fight for shows ranged on
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Speaker 1: the liner post Antonia springs, marian aids and troops of
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Speaker 1: Eastern kings, the Arabian near and Bactrans from Afar of tanngs,
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Speaker 1: discordant and a mingled war and rich in gaudy robes.
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Speaker 1: Amidst the strife, his ill fate follows him the Egyptian
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Speaker 1: wife moving. They fight with oars and forky prows. The
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Speaker 1: froth is gathered and the water glows. It seems as
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Speaker 1: if the cyclades again were rooted up and justled in
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Speaker 1: the main or floating mountains. Floating mountains meet. Such is
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Speaker 1: the fierce encounter of the fleet. Fireballs are thrown and pointed,
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Speaker 1: javelins fly. The fields of Neptune take the purple dye.
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Speaker 1: The Queen herself, amidst the loud alarms, with the symbols,
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Speaker 1: tossed her fainting soldier's worms, fool as she was, who
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Speaker 1: had not yet divined her cruel fate, nor saw the
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Speaker 1: snakes behind her country gods, the monsters of the sky,
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Speaker 1: Great Neptune pallace and Love's queen defire. The dog Anubis barks,
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Speaker 1: but barks in vain no longer dares suppose. The ethereal
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Speaker 1: train Mars in the middle of the shining shield, is
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Speaker 1: graved and strides along the liquid field. The Dea results
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Speaker 1: from heaven with swift descent, and Discord, died in blood
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Speaker 1: with garment strength divides the priest her steps. Belogna treads
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Speaker 1: and shakes her iron rod about their heads. This scene, Apollo,
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Speaker 1: from his Axian height, pours down his arrows at whose
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Speaker 1: winged flight. The trembling Indians and Egyptians shield and soft
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Speaker 1: sabines quit the water field. The fatal Mistress hoists her
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Speaker 1: silken sails, and, shrinking from the fight, invokes the gale.
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Speaker 1: A ghast, she looks and heaves her breast for breath,
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Speaker 1: panting and pale with fear of future death. The god
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Speaker 1: had figured her as striving along by winds and waves
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Speaker 1: and scudding through the throng. Just opposite sad Nielus opens
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Speaker 1: wide his arms and ample bosom to the tide, and
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Speaker 1: spreads his mantle over the winding coast, in which he
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Speaker 1: wraps his queen and hides the flying host the victor
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Speaker 1: to the gods. His tanks expressed, and Rome, triumphant with
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Speaker 1: his presence, blessed three hundred temples in the town. He
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Speaker 1: placed with spoils and altars. Every temple graced three shining
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Speaker 1: nights and three succeeding days. The fields resound, which shouts,
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Speaker 1: the streets with praise, the domes with songs, the theaters
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Speaker 1: with plays. All altars flame. Before each altar lies drenched
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Speaker 1: in his core the destined sacrifice. Great Caesar sits sublime
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Speaker 1: upon his throne before Apollo's porch of Parian stone, accepts
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Speaker 1: the presence vowed for victory, and hangs the monumental crowns
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Speaker 1: on high. Vast crowds of vanquished natures march along various
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Speaker 1: in arms, in habit and in tongue. Here Malsibre assigns
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Speaker 1: the proper place for Carians, and the ungirt Numidian race
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Speaker 1: then ranks the Trachians in the second row Wiskeetians, expert
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Speaker 1: in the dart and bow. And here the tamed Eufrat's
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Speaker 1: humbly glides. And there the Rine submits her swelling tides
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Speaker 1: and proud araxes, whom no bridge could bind. The Danes,
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Speaker 1: unconquered offspring march behind, and Maureeni, the last of human kind.
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Speaker 1: These his figures on the shield, divinely wrought by Vulcan
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Speaker 1: labor'd and by Venus, brought with joy and wonder, fill
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Speaker 1: the Hare's thought unknown, The names he yet admires, the grace,
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Speaker 1: and bears aloft the fame and fortune of his race.
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Speaker 1: End of Book eight, read by lash Rolander