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The Aeneid of Virgil

BOOK EIGHT
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"Henceforth they solemnise this day divine, Their glad posterity from year to year, Potitius first, and the Pinarian line, Preserve the praise of Hercules; and here This altar named 'the Greatest' did they rear.
(Greatest 'twill be for ever).

Come then, all, And give such worth due honour.

Wreathe your hair, And pass the wine-bowl merrily, and call Each on our common God, the guardian of us all." XXXVII.

He spake; the God's own poplar, fleckt with white, Hung, twining o'er his brows.

His right hand bore The sacred bowl.


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