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... branch , a branch of gold , and it is Aeneas ' comrade that dies . Aeneas goes down into the underworld , but the runaway's branch has nothing to do with the under- world . Tradition therefore does not aver that the fateful 3.
... branch , a branch of gold , and it is Aeneas ' comrade that dies . Aeneas goes down into the underworld , but the runaway's branch has nothing to do with the under- world . Tradition therefore does not aver that the fateful 3.
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... gold along the branch . Just as the mistletoe , not sown by the tree on which it grows 205 puts out fresh foliage in the woods in the dead of winter and twines its yellow fruit around the slender tree trunks , so shone the golden ...
... gold along the branch . Just as the mistletoe , not sown by the tree on which it grows 205 puts out fresh foliage in the woods in the dead of winter and twines its yellow fruit around the slender tree trunks , so shone the golden ...
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... gold . This is not a living branch , and therefore not quite apt for the mystical symbolism of life among the dead . It is metal . Nowhere so far in surviving classical literary sources or in surviving art have we met a golden branch ...
... gold . This is not a living branch , and therefore not quite apt for the mystical symbolism of life among the dead . It is metal . Nowhere so far in surviving classical literary sources or in surviving art have we met a golden branch ...
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