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1  For her love of Diana is not newly born, nor her spirit stirred by sudden affection.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
2  The groves of Egeria nursed him round the spongy shore where Diana's altar stands rich and gracious.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
3  Many a mother among Tyrrhenian towns destined her for their sons in vain; content with Diana alone, she keeps unsoiled for ever the love of her darts and maidenhood.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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4  Altars are reared around, and the priestess, with hair undone, thrice peals from her lips the hundred gods of Erebus and Chaos, and the triform Hecate, the triple-faced maidenhood of Diana.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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5  We descry the Aetnean brotherhood standing impotent with scowling eye, their stately heads up to heaven, a dreadful consistory; even as on a mountain summit stand oaks high in air or coned cypresses, a high forest of Jove or covert of Diana.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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6  For they say in story that Hippolytus, after he fell by his stepmother's treachery, torn asunder by his frightened horses to fulfil a father's revenge, came again to the daylight and heaven's upper air, recalled by Diana's love and the drugs of the Healer.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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7  But amid the slaughter Camilla rages, a quivered Amazon, with one side stripped for battle, and now sends tough javelins showering from her hand, now snatches the strong battle-axe in her unwearying grasp; the golden bow, the armour of Diana, clashes on her shoulders; and even when forced backward in retreat, she turns in flight and aims darts from her bow.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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8  Even as on Eurotas' banks or along the Cynthian ridges Diana wheels the dance, while behind her a thousand mountain nymphs crowd to left and right; she carries quiver on shoulder, and as she moves outshines them all in deity; Latona's heart is thrilled with silent joy; such was Dido, so she joyously advanced amid the throng, urging on the business of her rising empire.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FIRST