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... vicit iter durum pietas ? datur ora tueri nate tua et notas audire et reddere voces1 ( A. vi . 687 ) . To the Stoic Virgil's mourner might reply with Euripides ' Andromache that the happiness of the days when he had no son was poor ...
... vicit iter durum pietas ? datur ora tueri nate tua et notas audire et reddere voces1 ( A. vi . 687 ) . To the Stoic Virgil's mourner might reply with Euripides ' Andromache that the happiness of the days when he had no son was poor ...
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