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1  Then Pallas pierces Rhoeteus as he flies past in his chariot.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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2  Turnus leaps from his chariot and prepares to close with him.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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3  Meanwhile Turnus' gracious sister bids him take Lausus' room, and his fleet chariot parts the ranks.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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4  He shall drive his conquering chariot to the Capitoline height triumphant over Corinth, glorious in Achaean slaughter.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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5  Here was her armour, here her chariot; even now, if fate permit, the goddess strives to nurture it for queen of the nations.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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6  Likewise they lead forth the chariot bathed in Rutulian blood; behind goes weeping Aethon the war-horse, his trappings laid away, and big drops wet his face.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
7  Hence came our Lady, haunter of Cybele, the Corybantic cymbals and the grove of Ida; hence the rites of inviolate secrecy, and the lions yoked under the chariot of their mistress.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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8  For he saw, how warring round the Trojan citadel here the Greeks fled, the men of Troy hard on their rear; here the Phrygians, plumed Achilles in his chariot pressing their flight.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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9  Whence also hoofed horses are kept away from Trivia's temple and consecrated groves, because, affrighted at the portents of the sea, they overset the chariot and flung him out upon the shore.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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10  Then their lord yokes his wild horses with gold and fastens the foaming bits, and letting all the reins run slack in his hand, flies lightly in his sea-coloured chariot over the ocean surface.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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11  And now day had faded from the sky, and gracious Phoebe trod mid-heaven in the chariot of her nightly wandering: Aeneas, for his charge allows not rest to his limbs, himself sits guiding the tiller and managing the sails.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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12  After them beautiful Aventinus, born of beautiful Hercules, displays on the sward his palm-crowned chariot and victorious horses, and carries on his shield his father's device, the hundred snakes of the Hydra's serpent-wreath.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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13  Thrice had Achilles whirled Hector round the walls of Troy, and was selling the lifeless body for gold; then at last he heaves a loud and heart-deep groan, as the spoils, as the chariot, as the dear body met his gaze, and Priam outstretching unarmed hands.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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14  As Lucagus spurred on his horses, bending forward over the whip, with left foot advanced ready for battle, the spear passes through the lower rim of his shining shield and pierces his left groin, knocks him out of the chariot, and stretches him in death on the fields.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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15  This space, this much of respite was given to Ilus; for at Ilus he had aimed the strong spear from afar, and Rhoeteus intercepts its passage, in flight from thee, noble Teuthras and Tyres thy brother; he rolls from the chariot in death, and his heels strike the Rutulian fields.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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16  Afar he marvels at the armour and chariots empty of their lords: their spears stand fixed in the ground, and their unyoked horses pasture at large over the plain: their life's delight in chariot and armour, their care in pasturing their sleek horses, follows them in like wise low under earth.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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17  Elsewhere they hurried on a chariot for Mars with flying wheels, wherewith he stirs up men and cities; and burnished the golden serpent-scales of the awful aegis, the armour of wrathful Pallas, and the entwined snakes on the breast of the goddess, the Gorgon head with severed neck and rolling eyes.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
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