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1  Truly I think my wounds are yet to come, and I thy child am keeping some mortal weapons idle.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TENTH
2  Under high Troy town many and many a god's son fell; nay, mine own child Sarpedon likewise perished.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TENTH
3  Take these too," so says she, "my child, to be memorials to thee of my hands, and testify long hence the love of Andromache wife of Hector.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK THIRD
4  From her likewise hath Mezentius five hundred in arms against him, whom Mincius, child of Benacus, draped in gray reeds, led to battle in his advancing pine.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TENTH
5  If thy cruel wife leave no region free to Teucrians, by the smoking ruins of desolated Troy, O father, I beseech thee, grant Ascanius unhurt retreat from arms, grant me my child's life.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TENTH
6  So saying, he drew him quivering to the very altar, slipping in the pool of his child's blood, and wound his left hand in his hair, while in his right the sword flashed out and plunged to the hilt in his side.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SECOND
7  O sprung of gods' blood, child of Anchises of Troy, easy is the descent into hell; all night and day the gate of dark Dis stands open; but to recall thy steps and issue to upper air, this is the task and burden.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK SIXTH