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1  Thou art his wife, and thy prayers may essay his soul.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK FOURTH
2  There prosperity awaits thee, and a kingdom, and a king's daughter for thy wife.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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3  Now remember each his wife and home: now recall the high deeds of our fathers' honour.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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4  These words spoken, he clasped his wife in the desired embrace, and, sinking in her lap, wooed quiet slumber to overspread his limbs.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
5  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
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6  All hearts sink; Latinus goes with torn raiment, in dismay at his wife's doom and his city's downfall, defiling his hoary hair with soilure of sprinkled dust.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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7  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
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8  Overborne by love for thee, overborne by kinship of blood and my weeping wife's complaint, I broke all fetters, I severed the maiden from her promised husband, I took up unrighteous arms.
The Aeneid By Virgil
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9  The spear flies on; where haply stood opposite in ninefold brotherhood all the beautiful sons of one faithful Tyrrhene wife, borne of her to Gylippus the Arcadian, one of them, midway where the sewn belt rubs on the flank and the clasp bites the fastenings of the side, one of them, excellent in beauty and glittering in arms, it pierces clean through the ribs and stretches on the yellow sand.
The Aeneid By Virgil
ContextHighlight   In BOOK TWELFTH