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1  Then lord Anchises with welling tears began: 'O my son, ask not of the great sorrow of thy people.'
The Aeneid By Virgil
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2  At this weeping cry their courage falters, and a sigh of sorrow passes all along; their strength is benumbed and broken for battle.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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3  The words soothed away his distress, and for a while drove grief away from his sorrowing heart; he is glad in the land of his name.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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4  Hence is it they fear and desire, sorrow and rejoice; nor can they pierce the air while barred in the blind darkness of their prison-house.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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5  He spoke, and leapt swiftly from his chariot to the field, and darting through weapons and through enemies, leaves his sorrowing sister, and bursts in rapid course amid their columns.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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6  So when, overcome by her pangs, she caught the madness and resolved to die, she works out secretly the time and fashion, and accosts her sorrowing sister with mien hiding her design and hope calm on her brow.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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7  This lament done, he bids raise the piteous body, and sends a thousand men chosen from all his army for the last honour of escort, to mingle in the father's tears; a small comfort in a great sorrow, yet the unhappy parent's due.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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8  Did fate allow me to guide my life by mine own government, and calm my sorrows as I would, my first duty were to the Trojan city and the dear remnant of my kindred; the high house of Priam should abide, and my hand had set up Troy towers anew for a conquered people.
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9  And when the unhappy Latin women knew this calamity, first her daughter Lavinia tears her flower-like tresses and roseate cheeks, and all the train around her madden in her suit; the wide palace echoes to their wailing, and from it the sorrowful rumour spreads abroad throughout the town.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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