"If Homer sometimes nods, Apollonius may be said to be only occasionally awake, though his long fits of somnolency are relieved by fanciful and even attractive dreams."
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John Conington, P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Vol. II, 3rd edition (1876), "Introduction to the Aeneid", p. 24
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