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... sub gurgite vasto Infectum eluitur scelus , aut exuritur igni . Quisque suos patimur manes : exinde per amplum Mittimur Elysium , et pauci læta arva tenemus . En . vi . 735 . Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains ; But long ...
... sub gurgite vasto Infectum eluitur scelus , aut exuritur igni . Quisque suos patimur manes : exinde per amplum Mittimur Elysium , et pauci læta arva tenemus . En . vi . 735 . Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains ; But long ...
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| Title | Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs: Discoverable in Modern Italy and Sicily Volume 198 of Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily, John James Blunt |
| Author | John James Blunt |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1823 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2007 |
| ISBN | 1548637882, 9781548637880 |
| Length | 293 pages |
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