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Speaker 1: Book eight, Part one of the Eneid. This is a
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Speaker 1: Reading by lash Rolander. The Enid by Publius Virgilius Morrow,
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Speaker 1: translated by John Dryden, Book eight, Arcadian Allies, Part one.
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Speaker 1: When Turnus had assembled all his powers, his standard planted
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Speaker 1: on Lorentzium stowers, when now the springly trumpet from Afar
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Speaker 1: had given the signal of approaching, bar had roused the
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Speaker 1: neighing steeds to score the fields, while the fierce riders
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Speaker 1: clattered on their shields, trembling with rage. The Latian youth
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Speaker 1: prepare to join the allies and headlong rush to wire.
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Speaker 1: Fierce Ufens and Messapus led the crowd with bold Messentius,
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Speaker 1: who blasphemed aloud. These through the country took their wasteful
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Speaker 1: course the fields to forage and to gather force. Then
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Speaker 1: Venulus to Diomede they sent to beg his aid a
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Speaker 1: Sonia to defend, declare the common danger, and inform the
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Speaker 1: Grecian leader of the growing storm. Eneas landed on the
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Speaker 1: Latian coast with banish'd gods and with a baffled host,
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Speaker 1: yet now aspired to conquest of the state, and claimed
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Speaker 1: a title from the gods and fate. What numerous nations
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Speaker 1: in his quarrel came, and how they spread his formidable name,
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Speaker 1: what he design'd, What mischief might arise if fortune favored
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Speaker 1: his first enterprise was left for him to weigh whose
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Speaker 1: equal fears and common interest was involved in theirs. While
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Speaker 1: Turnus and the Allies thus urged the war, the Troyon,
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Speaker 1: floating in a flood of care, beholds the tempest which
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Speaker 1: his foes prepare this way, and that he turns his
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Speaker 1: anxious mind, thinks and rejects the counsels he designed, explores
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Speaker 1: himself in vain in every part, and gives no rest
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Speaker 1: to his distracted heart. So when the sun by day
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Speaker 1: or moon by night strike on the polished brass, that
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Speaker 1: trembling light, the glittering species here and there divide and
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Speaker 1: cast their dubious beams from side to side, now on
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Speaker 1: the walls, now on the pavement play, and to the
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Speaker 1: ceiling flash the glaring day, it was night, and wheary
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Speaker 1: nature lull sleep, The birds of air and fishes of
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Speaker 1: the deep and beasts and mortal men. The troy in
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Speaker 1: chief was laid on Tiber spank, oppress'd with grief, and
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Speaker 1: found in silent slumber late relief. Then through the shadows
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Speaker 1: of the poplar wood arose the father of the Roman flood.
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Speaker 1: An ars aerobe was o'er his body spread. A wreath
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Speaker 1: of shady raids adorned his head. Thus manifesto sight the
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Speaker 1: god appeared, and with these pleasing words his sorrow cheered,
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Speaker 1: undoubted offspring of a thoral race O long expected in
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Speaker 1: this promised place, who through the foes hast borne thy
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Speaker 1: banish'd gods restored them to their hearths and old abodes.
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Speaker 1: This is thy happy home, the clime where fate ordains
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Speaker 1: thee to restore the Troyan state. Fear not the war
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Speaker 1: shall end in lasting peace, and all the rage of
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Speaker 1: haughty Junus sees, and that this nightly vision may not
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Speaker 1: see the effect of fancy or an idle dream. As
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Speaker 1: so beneath an oak shall lie along all white herself
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Speaker 1: and whieter thirty young. When thirty rolling years have run
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Speaker 1: their race, Thy son Ascarnius, on this empty space shall
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Speaker 1: build a royal town of lasting fame, which from this
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Speaker 1: omen shall receive the name. Time shall approve the truth
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Speaker 1: for what remains, and how with sure success, to crown
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Speaker 1: thy pains with patience. Next attend a banish'd band driven
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Speaker 1: with a wander from the Arcadian land, have planted here
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Speaker 1: and placed on high their walls their town. The founder
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Speaker 1: Pallantium calls to read from Pallas, his great grandsire's name.
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Speaker 1: But the fierce Latzian's old possession claim. With war infesting
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Speaker 1: the new colony, please make thy friends, and on their
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Speaker 1: aid rely to thy free passage. I submit my streams,
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Speaker 1: wake sun of Venus from thy pleasing dreams. And when
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Speaker 1: the setting stars are lost in day, to Junou's power,
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Speaker 1: thy just devotion pay which sacrifice the wrathful queen apiece
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Speaker 1: her pride at length shall fall her furious seas. When
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Speaker 1: thou return'st victorious from the war, perform thy vows to
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Speaker 1: me with grateful care. The god am I whose yell
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Speaker 1: of water flows around these fields, it fattens as it goes.
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Speaker 1: Tiber my name among the rolling floods, renowned on earth,
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Speaker 1: esteem'd among the gods. This is my certain seat. In
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Speaker 1: times to come, my waves shall wash the walls of
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Speaker 1: mighty Rome, he said, and plung'd below, while yet he
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Speaker 1: spoke his dream anea Us and his sleep. Forsoke he rose,
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Speaker 1: and looking up beheld the skies with purple blushing, and
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Speaker 1: the day arise. The water in his hollow palm he
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Speaker 1: took from Tiber's flood. And thus the powers bespoke Laurentian nymphs,
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Speaker 1: by whom the streams are fed. And Father Tiber, in
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Speaker 1: thy sacred bed, receive anea Us, and from danger, keep
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Speaker 1: whatever found, whatever wholly deep conceals thy water stores wherever
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Speaker 1: they rise, and bubbling from below, salute the skies, Thou,
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Speaker 1: king of horned floods, so splendious urn suffices fatness to
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Speaker 1: the fruitful corn. For this thy kind compassion of our woes,
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Speaker 1: shall share my morning song and evening vows. But O
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Speaker 1: be present to thy people's aid and firm the gracious
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Speaker 1: promise thou hast made, thus, having said to Gallis, from
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Speaker 1: his stores, with care, he chooses mans and fits with oars.
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Speaker 1: Now on the shore, the fatal swine is found wondrous
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Speaker 1: to tell. She lay along the ground, her well fed offspring.
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Speaker 1: At her others hang She white herself and white her
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Speaker 1: thirty young Eneas takes the mother and her brood, and
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Speaker 1: all on Juna's altar are bestowed. The following night and
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Speaker 1: the succeeding day, propitious teabers smoothed his watchy way, he
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Speaker 1: rolled his river back, and poised he stood a gentle
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Speaker 1: swelling and a peaceful flood. The Troyants mount their ships.
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Speaker 1: They put from shore borne on the waves, and scarcely
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Speaker 1: dip an oar. Shouts from the land give omen to
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Speaker 1: their course, and the pitched vessels glide with easy force.
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Speaker 1: The woods and waters wander at the gleam of shields
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Speaker 1: and painted ships that stemmed the stream. One summer's night
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Speaker 1: and one whole day they pass betwixt the green wood
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Speaker 1: shades and cut the liquid glass. The fiery sun had
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Speaker 1: finished half his race, looked back and doubted in the
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Speaker 1: middle paspace, when they from far beheld the rising towers,
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Speaker 1: the tops of sheds, and shepherd slowly bars thin as
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Speaker 1: they stood, which then unhomely clay now rise in marble
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Speaker 1: from the Roman's way. These cots Evander's kingdom, mean and poor.
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Speaker 1: The troy and saw and turned his ships to shore.
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Speaker 1: T It was a solemn day. The Arcadian states. The
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Speaker 1: king and prince without the city gates then paid their
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Speaker 1: offsprings in a sacred grew the hercules the warrior's sun
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Speaker 1: of joe, thick clouds of rolling smoke involved the skies
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Speaker 1: and fat o entrails on his altar fries. But when
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Speaker 1: they saw the ship that stemmed the flood and glittered
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Speaker 1: through the covert of the wood, they rose with fear
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Speaker 1: and left the unfinished feast till dauntless palace reassured the
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Speaker 1: rest to pay the rights himself without delay. A javelin
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Speaker 1: ceased and singly took his way, then gained a rising
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Speaker 1: ground and called from far resolve me, strangers, whence and
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Speaker 1: what you are? Your business here? And bring you peace
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Speaker 1: or war? High on the stern eneas he stand and
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Speaker 1: held a branch of olive in his hand. While thus
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Speaker 1: he spoke the Frigin's arms you see, expelled from Troy,
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Speaker 1: provoked in Italy by Lacian foes, with war unjustly made
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Speaker 1: at first, effinest, then at last betrayed this message bare.
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Speaker 1: The triyanphs and their chief bring holy peace, and begged
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Speaker 1: the king's relief. Struck with so great a name, and
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Speaker 1: all on fire. The youth replies, whatever you require, your
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Speaker 1: fame exacts upon our shores. Descend a welcome guest, and
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Speaker 1: what you wish a friend? He said, And downward, hasting
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Speaker 1: to the strand, embraced the stranger prince and join'd his
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Speaker 1: hand conducted to the groove. Ene'as broke the silence first,
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Speaker 1: and thus the king bespoke best of the Greeks, to whom,
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Speaker 1: by Fate's command, I bare these peaceful branches in my
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Speaker 1: hannd undaunted. I proach you, thou, I know your birth
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Speaker 1: is Grecian, and your land my foe. From Artras Thou,
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Speaker 1: your ancient lineage, came and boast the brother kings your
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Speaker 1: kindred claim. Yet myself conus worth, your high renown, your virtue.
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Speaker 1: Through neither neighboring nations blown, our father's mingled blood Apaulu's
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Speaker 1: voice have led me hither less my need than choice
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Speaker 1: our founder Dardanus, as fame has sung, and Greeks and
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Speaker 1: knowledge from Electra sprung Electra. From the loins of Atlas
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Speaker 1: came Atlas, whose head sustains the starry frame. Your sire
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Speaker 1: is Mercury, whom long before on cold Kileen is top
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Speaker 1: fair Maya bore Maya the fair on fame if we
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Speaker 1: rely was Atlas's daughter who sustains the sky. Thus from
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Speaker 1: one common source our streams divide. Ours is the troyon
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Speaker 1: yours the Arridian side. Raised by these hopes, I send
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Speaker 1: no news before, nor asked your leave, nor did your
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Speaker 1: faith implore. But come without a pledge, my own ambassador.
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Speaker 1: The same Rautulians, who with arms pursue the troy and
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Speaker 1: race are equal foes to you, our host expell'd what
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Speaker 1: farther force can stay the victor's troops from universal sway.
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Speaker 1: Then when they stretch their power, a't'warth the land and
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Speaker 1: either see from side to side, command, receive our offer'd
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Speaker 1: faith and give us thine. Ours is a generous and
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Speaker 1: experienced line. We want no hearts nor bodies for the war.
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Speaker 1: In council cautious and in fields we dare, he said,
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Speaker 1: And while spoke with piercing eyes, Ivander view the man
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Speaker 1: with vast surprise, pleas'd with his action, ravished with his face,
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Speaker 1: then answered briefly with the royal grace, O, valiant leader
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Speaker 1: of the Troyal line, in whom the features of thy
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Speaker 1: father shine, How I recall unkisses, how I see his
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Speaker 1: motions mean and all my friend in thee long though
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Speaker 1: it be, it's fresh within my mind. When pri Arm
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Speaker 1: to his sister's court design'd a welcome visit with a
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Speaker 1: friendly stay, and through the Arcadian kingdom took his way,
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Speaker 1: and then pass'd a boy the calah down began to
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Speaker 1: shade my chin and call me first a man. I
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Speaker 1: saw the shining train with vast delight, and Priam's goodly
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Speaker 1: person pleas'd my sight, But great uncases far about the rest,
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Speaker 1: with awful wonder fir'd my youthful breast. I long'd to
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Speaker 1: join in friendship's holy bands, our mutual hearts, and plight
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Speaker 1: our mutual hands. I first accosted him, I sued, I sought,
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Speaker 1: and with a loving force to Phineus brought. He gave me,
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Speaker 1: when at length constrain'd to go, a Lycian quiver and
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Speaker 1: Agnostian bow, a vest embroidered glorious to behold, and two
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Speaker 1: rich bridles with their bits of gold, which my son's
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Speaker 1: courses in obedient sold. The league you ask, I offer
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Speaker 1: as you write, And when to morrow's sun reveals the
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Speaker 1: light with swift supplies you shall be sent away. Now
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Speaker 1: celebrate with us this solemn day, whose holy rites admit
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Speaker 1: no long delay. Honor our annual feast, and take your
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Speaker 1: seat with friendly welcome at a homely treat. Thus, having said,
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Speaker 1: the bowls removed for fear, the youth replaced, and soon
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Speaker 1: restor'd the chair on sods of turf. He set the
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Speaker 1: soldiers round a maple thrown rais'd higher from the ground,
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Speaker 1: received the troy in chief, and o'er the bed a
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Speaker 1: lion's shaggy hide for ornament. They spread. The loaves were
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Speaker 1: serv'd in canisters, the wine in bowels. Their priests renew'd,
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Speaker 1: the rite's divine broiled and trails o their flood and
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Speaker 1: beefs continu'd shine. But when the rage of hunger was repress'd,
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Speaker 1: thus spoke Evander to his royal guest, these rites, these altars,
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Speaker 1: and this feast O King from no vain fears of
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Speaker 1: superstition spring or blind devotion, or from blinder chance, or
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Speaker 1: heeded seal or brutal ignorance, but sailed from danger with
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Speaker 1: a grateful sense. The labors of a god we recompense.
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Speaker 1: See from afar yon rock that mates the sky about
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Speaker 1: whose feet such heaps of rubbish lie such indigested ruin bleak,
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Speaker 1: And where how disart now it stands exposed in air.
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Speaker 1: It was once a robbersten enclosed around with living stone,
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Speaker 1: and deep beneath the ground. The monster carcaus more than
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Speaker 1: half abeast. This hold, impervious to the sun, possessed the payment,
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Speaker 1: ever foul, with human gore heads and their mangled members
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Speaker 1: hung the door. Vulcan, this plague begot unlike his sire,
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Speaker 1: black clouds. He belged, and flakes of livid fire. Time
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Speaker 1: long expected east us of our load, and brought the
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Speaker 1: needful presence of a god. The avenging force of Hercules
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Speaker 1: from Spain arrived in triumph, from Gayer and slain Thrice
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Speaker 1: livid the giant, and Thrice livid in vain his price.
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Speaker 1: The lowing herds Alqedestroo, near Tiber's bang to graze. The
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Speaker 1: shady grew alert with hope of plunder and intent by
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Speaker 1: force to rob by fraud, to circumvent the brutal carcass as.
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Speaker 1: By chance they strayed for oxen, thence and for fair
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Speaker 1: kind convey'd, and lest the printed footsteps might be seen,
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Speaker 1: he dragged them backwards to his rocky den. The tracks
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Speaker 1: averse a lying notice gave and led the searcher backward
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Speaker 1: from the cave. Meantime, the herchman hero shifts his place
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Speaker 1: to find for his pasture and untrodden grass. The beasts
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Speaker 1: who missed their mates, filled all around with bellowing, and
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Speaker 1: the rocks restor'd the sound. One HiFER, who had heard
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Speaker 1: her love complain, roared from the cave and made the
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Speaker 1: project vain Alkides found the fraud with rage. He shook
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Speaker 1: and tossed about his head, his knotted oak, swift as
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Speaker 1: the winds or sketcheon arrow's flight. He clumbed with eager
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Speaker 1: haste the aerial height. Then first we saw the monster
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Speaker 1: mend his pace, fairis eyes and paleness in his face
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Speaker 1: confessed the god's approach, trembling his springs as terror had
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Speaker 1: increased his feet with wings. Nor stay'd for stairs, but
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Speaker 1: down the depth. He threw his body on his back
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Speaker 1: the door. He drew the door a rib of living
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Speaker 1: rock with pains. His father ewed it out and bounded
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Speaker 1: with iron chains. He broke the heavy links. The mountains closed,
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Speaker 1: and bars and levers to his foe. A post the
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Speaker 1: wretch had hardly made his dungeons fast. The fierce Avenger came,
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Speaker 1: with bounding haste, swayed the mouth of the forbidden hold,
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Speaker 1: And here and there his raging eyes he rolled, he
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Speaker 1: gnashed his teeth, and thrice he comped round with winged
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Speaker 1: speed the circuit of the ground. Thrice. At the cavern's
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Speaker 1: mouth he pulled, in vain and panting, thrice desisted from
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Speaker 1: his pain. A pointed flinted rock, all bare and black,
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Speaker 1: grew gibbons from behind the mountain's back. Owls, ravens, all
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Speaker 1: ill omens of the night here built their nests, and
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Speaker 1: hither winged their flight. The leaning head hung threatening over
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Speaker 1: the flood, and nodded to the left the hair of
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Speaker 1: stud at verse with planted feet, and from the right
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Speaker 1: tagged at the solid stone with all his might. Thus
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Speaker 1: heaved the fixed foundation of the rock gave way. Heaven
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Speaker 1: echoed at the rattling shock, tumbling it choked the flood
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Speaker 1: on either side. The banks leaped backward, and the streams divide.
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Speaker 1: The sky shrunk upward with unusual tread and trembling teabre divide.
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Speaker 1: Beneath his bed, the court of carcass stands revealed to sight,
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Speaker 1: the cavern glares with new admitted light, so the pent
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Speaker 1: vapors with rumbling sound. He from below and rend the
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Speaker 1: hollow ground as sounding floor succeeds, and from on high
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Speaker 1: the gods with hate beheld the nether sky. The ghost
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Speaker 1: repine at violated night, and cursed the invading sun, and
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Speaker 1: sicken at the sight. The graceless monster, caught in open day,
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Speaker 1: inclosed and in despair to fly away, howls horrible from underneath,
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Speaker 1: and fills his hollow palace. When unmanly yells, the hero
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Speaker 1: stands above, and from afar plies him with darts and
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Speaker 1: stones and distant war. He, from his nostrils huge mouth
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Speaker 1: expires black clouds of smoke amidst his father's fires, gathering
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Speaker 1: with each repeated blast the night to make uncertain aim
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Speaker 1: and err in sight. The wrathful god then plunges from above,
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Speaker 1: and where in thickest waves the sparkles stroll their lights
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Speaker 1: and wads through fumes and groups. His way, half singed,
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Speaker 1: half stifled, till he grasps his prey, the monsters pewing
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Speaker 1: fruitless flames. He found. He squeezed his throat, He wreathed
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Speaker 1: his neck around and in a knot, his crippled members bound,
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Speaker 1: then from their sockets tore his burning eyes. Rolled on
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Speaker 1: a heap, the breathless robber lies. The doors unbarred receive
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Speaker 1: the rushing day, and thorough lights disclose the ravished prey.
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Speaker 1: The bulls redeemed breathe open air again, next by the
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Speaker 1: feet that drag him from his den the wandering neighborhood
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Speaker 1: with glad surprise. The whole is shaggy breest, his giant size,
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Speaker 1: his mouth that flames no more, and his extinguish'd eyes.
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Speaker 1: From that auspicious day, with rights divine, we worship at
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Speaker 1: the hero's holy shrine. Potiticius first ordain'd these annual vows.
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Speaker 1: As priests, we added the pinarian house, who raised this
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Speaker 1: altar in the sacred shade, where honors ever due, forever
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Speaker 1: shall be paid for these deserts, and this high virtue shone.
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Speaker 1: We war like youth, your heads with Garland's crown, fill
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Speaker 1: high the goblets with a sparkling flood, and with deep drafts,
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Speaker 1: invoke our common God. This said a double wreath ebunder
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Speaker 1: twin'd and poplar's black and white. His temple's bind then
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Speaker 1: brims his ample bowl with like design, the rest invoke
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Speaker 1: the gods with sprinkled wine. Meantime, the sun descended from
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Speaker 1: the skies, and the bright evening star began to rise.
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Speaker 1: And now the priests Potitius at their head in skins
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Speaker 1: of beasts involved the long procession lead held high, the
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Speaker 1: flaming tapers in their hands, as custom had prescribed their
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Speaker 1: holy bands. Then with the second course, the table slowed,
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Speaker 1: and with full chargers offered to the god the Salih,
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Speaker 1: sing and sense his altars round with sab on smoke
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Speaker 1: their heads with poplar bond, one choir of old, another
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Speaker 1: of the young, to dance and bear the burthen of
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Speaker 1: the song. The lay records the labors and their praise,
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Speaker 1: and all the immortal acts of Hercules. First, how the
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Speaker 1: mighty Babe, when swathed in bands the serpent strangled with
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Speaker 1: his infant hands. Then, as in years and matchless force,
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Speaker 1: he grew the Aukalian wall, and Troyon overthrew, besides a
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Speaker 1: thousand hazards they relate procur'd by June and Eurystus. Hate
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Speaker 1: thy hands, unconquer'd hero could subdue the cloud born can
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Speaker 1: towers and their monster's crew, nor thy resistless arms. The
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Speaker 1: bull withstood, nor the roaring terror of the wood. The
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Speaker 1: triple porter of the Stygian seat, with lolling tongue, lay
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Speaker 1: fawning at thy feet, and ceas'd with fear for god
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Speaker 1: S mangled meat. The infernal waters tremble at thy sight
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Speaker 1: thee God. No face of danger could affright, no huge tifhus,
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Speaker 1: nor the unnumber'd snake increas'd with hissing heads in Lerner's lake.
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Speaker 1: Hail Jos undoubted son An added grace to heaven, and
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Speaker 1: the great author of thy race, receive the grateful offerings
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Speaker 1: which we pay, and smile propitious on thy solemn day.
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Speaker 1: In numbers. Thus they sung about the rest, the den
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Speaker 1: and death of carcass, crowned the feast, the woods to
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Speaker 1: hollow vales, convey the sound, the vales to hills and hills,
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Speaker 1: The notes rebound, the rites performed. The cheerful trained retire
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Speaker 1: betwixt young Pallace and his aged sire the Troy, and
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Speaker 1: passed the city to survey and pleasing talk begilded the
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Speaker 1: tedious way. The stranger cast around his curious eyes new objects,
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Speaker 1: viewing still with new surprise, with greedy joy enquires of
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Speaker 1: various things and acts and monuments of ancient kings. Then
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Speaker 1: thus the founder of the Roman towers. These woods were
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Speaker 1: first the seat of Sylvan powers, of nymns and fauns
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Speaker 1: and salvage, men who took their birth from trunks of
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Speaker 1: trees and stubborn oak, nor laws. They knew no manners,
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Speaker 1: nor the care of laboring oxen or the shining share,
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Speaker 1: nor archs of gain, nor what the gain to spare.
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Speaker 1: Their exercise the chase. The running flood supplied their thirst,
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Speaker 1: the trees supplied their foot. Then Saturn came, who fled
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Speaker 1: the power of Joe, robbed of his realms and banished
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Speaker 1: from above. The men dispersed on hills to towns he brought,
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Speaker 1: and lore sordained, and civil customs taught, and Latium called
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Speaker 1: the land where safe he lay from his undutious son
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Speaker 1: and his usurping sway with his smiled empire. Peace and
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Speaker 1: plenty came, and hence the Golden times to read their name.
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Speaker 1: A more degenerate and discolored age succeeded this with avarice
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Speaker 1: and rage. The Asaunians then, and bold Scanians came, and
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Speaker 1: Saturn's empire often cha the name. Then kings gigantic Tibris,
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Speaker 1: and the rest with arbitrary sway. The land oppress'd for
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Speaker 1: Tiber's flood was Albula, before till from the tyrant's fate
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Speaker 1: his name it Bore. I last arrived, driving from my
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Speaker 1: native home by fortune's power and faith's resistless doom. Long
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Speaker 1: toss'd on seas, I sought this happy land worn by
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Speaker 1: my mother Nymph, and call'd by Heaven's command. End of
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Speaker 1: Book eight, Part one, read by Lash Rolander