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“...distraught I seize mine arms…And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand!” quote by Virgil — Download Open image

““...distraught I seize mine arms…And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand!””

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“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”

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“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes”

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The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

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One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.

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