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1  A term of the peace for me shall be to touch your monarch's hand.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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2  With these gifts and words the Aeneadae ride back from Latinus carrying peace.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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3  Latinus the King, now growing old, ruled in a long peace over quiet tilth and town.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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4  And now they bare their backs in flight, now turn their lances to the charge, now plight peace and ride on side by side.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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5  Forth now, dupe, and face thankless perils; forth, cut down the Tyrrhenian lines; give the Latins peace in thy protection.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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6  Twelve days' truce is struck, and in mediation of the peace Teucrians and Latins stray mingling unharmed on the forest heights.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
7  But yet these same beasts are wont in time to enter harness, and carry yoke and bit in concord; there is hope of peace too, says he.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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8  Meanwhile Aeneas sees deep withdrawn in the covert of the vale a woodland and rustling forest thickets, and the river of Lethe that floats past their peaceful dwellings.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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9  Yet here did he set Patavium town, a dwelling-place for his Teucrians, gave his name to a nation and hung up the armour of Troy; now settled in peace, he rests and is in quiet.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FIRST
10  First must the Trinacrian wave clog thine oar, and thy ships traverse the salt Ausonian plain, by the infernal pools and Aeaean Circe's isle, ere thou mayest build thy city in safety on a peaceful land.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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11  Beneath his reign were the ages named of gold; thus, in peace and quietness, did he rule the nations; till gradually there crept in a sunken and stained time, the rage of war, and the lust of possession.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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12  If thou dost repose no further hope in our arms, if all hath indeed left us, and one repulse been our utter ruin, and our fortune is beyond recovery, let us plead for peace and stretch forth unarmed hands.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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13  To him Tullus shall next succeed, who shall break the peace of his country and stir to arms men rusted from war and armies now disused to triumphs; and hard on him over-vaunting Ancus follows, even now too elate in popular breath.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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14  So, for the stain of the broken peace, he orders his chief warriors to march on King Latinus, and bids prepare for battle, to defend Italy and drive the foe from their borders; himself will suffice for Trojans and Latins together.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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15  Further, it is our will that an hundred ambassadors of the highest rank in Latium shall go to bear our words and ratify the treaty, holding forth in their hands the boughs of peace, and carrying for gifts weight of gold and ivory, and the chair and striped robe, our royal array.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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16  Add yet one to those gifts of thine, to all the riches thou bidst us send or promise to the Dardanians, most gracious of kings, but one; let no man's passion overbear thee from giving thine own daughter to an illustrious son and a worthy marriage, and binding this peace by perpetual treaty.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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