"Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso, quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?"
— Aeneid

January 1, 1970

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Epic poetryWorks by Virgil
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Lines 8–11 (tr. David West) — Compare: "In heavenly spirits could such perverseness dwell?" John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), 6.788