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βSuffer, support yourselves, preserve yourselves | to this, which from heaven is reserved for you, | yes glorious and yes happy state.β
β''Horrible monster, deformed and immeasurable, Polyphemus | who had like a dark cave on his forehead | instead of an eye, and for a stick a pine tree, | whereby the steps he stopped.β
βNow listen | the malice of the Greeks: and from this one | know them all. Ab uno disces omnis on Wikipedia.β
β''If I stay on the beach, | if I untie the sails, | treacherous, cruel | I hear myself called: | and meanwhile confused | in the fatal doubt, | I'm not leaving, I'm not staying, | but I try the martyr | what I would have when leaving, what I would have when staying".β
β''To you holy bones, to you ashes love | and famous and happy, soul and shadow | of my father, I return again in vain | to honor you; then that Italy and the Tebro | (even if Tebro is for us) contends for it. | Now, what I can with devoted affection | I adore you and bow to you as something holy."β
βAnd the time will come | one day, which so many and so many ventures, | nothing else, they will be a sweet reminder to you. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit on Wikipedia.β
βAh for the gold impious and despicable hunger! | And who doesn't dare for you, and who doesn't try | this human greed? Quid non mortalia pectora coges, auri sacra fames on Wikipedia.β
βI know well that it's hard | it is the contrast of the winds; and ours is in vain. | Turn the sails. And what is more grateful elsewhere, | or more comfortable shore, or safer | never have my tired ships, | of the one who cherishes Aceste, | and does the bone welcome my good father? [to Palinuro]β
βBut if you hear our troubles, | if briefly you like saver | the last massacre, where she burned and fell, | although mourning and pain renew me, | and only memory dismays me; Animus meminisse horret'' on Wikipedia. | I'll count it."β
βWe hear to other tears called | from the same fate, other battles | we will learn. And you, great Pallas, | go in peace, and with eternal glory | enjoy eternal rest. Aeternum vale on Wikipedia. [to the corpse of Pallas]β
βI am Aeneas, that pious man who gives enemies | I have escaped with me my patriotic Penates, | up to the stars now known by fame. | Italy I'm looking for, who for homeland | Jupiter assigns me, author of my blood. | With ten and ten well-garnished ships | I left Phrygia, following my destiny | and the splendor of the maternal star.β
βLies from Sicania to the gulf forward | a small island that in Plemmirio ondoso | is placed towards, and by the ancients it is called | by name Ortigia. This island has fame | who through the streets under the sea the Greek Alphaeus | comes from DΓ²ride intact, to the end of Arcadia | through the mouth of Arethusa to mix | with the waves of Sicily.β
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βVirgil, the one whom the professors call the swan of Mantua, certainly because that is not where he was born, appeared to him as one of the most unbearable nuisances that antiquity has ever produced, as well as one of the most terrible pedants . His shepherds all neat and dressed up, who take turns inundating each other with sentient and cold verses, his Orpheus whom he compares to a nightingale in tears, his Aristaeus who whimpers about bees, his Aeneas, character indecisive and inconstant who moves like a Chinese shadow, with wooden gestures, behind the transparent and poorly oiled poem, exasperated him. (Joris-Karl Huysmans)β
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