Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces.
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All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river.... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil
Faithful Achates. Fidus Achates.
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She (Fame) walks on the earth, and her head is concealed in the clouds.
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Perhaps one day it will be pleasant to remember even these things. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
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Accursed thirst for gold what dost thou not compel mortals to do.
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Then Heaven, the Father Almighty, comes down in fruitful showers into the lap of his joyous spouse, and his might, with her mighty frame commingling, nurtures all growths.
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