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Description
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.
First Sentence
most ancient areas of the Romulean city, linking them and giving them (characteristically) a pre-Romulean aetiology. According to Tacitus (Ann. 12.24) the limits of the Romulean city, the pomerium, could be credibly reconstructed: 'sed initium condendi, et quod pomerium Romulus posuerit, noscere haud absurdum reor.
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Authors & Contributors
- Virgil (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Robert Fitzgerald (Translator)
- Allen Mandelbaum (Translator)
- David West (Translator)
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