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1  Arise out of our dust, O unnamed avenger, to pursue the Dardanian settlement with firebrand and steel.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FOURTH
2  My spirit kindles to fire, and rises in wrath to avenge my dying land and take repayment for her crimes.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SECOND
3  For princely Alcides the avenger came glorious in the spoils of triple Geryon slain; this way the Conqueror drove the huge bulls, and his oxen filled the river valley.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
4  He shall uproot Argos and Agamemnonian Mycenae, and the Aeacid's own heir, the seed of Achilles mighty in arms, avenging his ancestors in Troy and Minerva's polluted temple.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SIXTH
5  Take these, and draw from the quiver an avenging shaft; by it shall he pay me forfeit of his blood, whoso, Trojan or Italian alike, shall sully her sacred body with a wound.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
6  Nor in my madness was I silent: and, should any chance offer, did I ever return a conqueror to my native Argos, I vowed myself his avenger, and with my words I stirred his bitter hatred.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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7  Straightway avenging Tisiphone, girt with her scourge, tramples down the shivering sinners, menaces them with the grim snakes in her left hand, and summons forth her sisters in merciless train.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SIXTH
8  Sun, whose fires lighten all the works of the world, and thou, Juno, mediatress and witness of these my distresses, and Hecate, cried on by night in crossways of cities, and you, fatal avenging sisters and gods of dying Elissa, hear me now; bend your just deity to my woes, and listen to our prayers.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FOURTH