"Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus Dardaniae. Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium."
— Aeneid

January 1, 1970

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Epic poetryWorks by Virgil
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Lines 324–325 (tr. Fairclough) — Compare: "Awaits alike the inevitable hour." Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751), stanza 9, line 35