"Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto."
— Aeneid
January 1, 1970
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Epic poetry
Works by Virgil
Original Language: English
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This verse is "often used of such authors, or passages, as have survived the wreck of time; or where a good work, painting, or line of poetry appears amongst an ocean of rubbish", as reported in W. Francis H. King's A Dictionary of Classical and Foreign Quotations (3rd ed., 1904), p. 18
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This verse is "often used of such authors, or passages, as have survived the wreck of time; or where a good work, painting, or line of poetry appears amongst an ocean of rubbish", as reported in W. Francis H. King's A Dictionary of Classical and Foreign Quotations (3rd ed., 1904), p. 18