 Iliacas vestis notumque cubile conspexit, paulum lacrimis et mente morata incubuitque toro dixitque novissima verba : 650 'dulces exuviae, dum fata deusque sinebat, accipite hanc animam meque his exsolvite curis. vixi et quem dederat cursum fortuna peregi,...  Virgil's Aeneid: With Explanatory Notes - Page 91by Virgil - 1862 - 598 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. D. Reed - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 239 pages
...Exul echoes in the Aeneid when Dido, about to die, wishes the Trojans had never arrived (4.657-58): "felix, heu nimium felix, si litora tantum numquam Dardaniae tetigissent nostra carinae." "[I would have been] happy, alas, all too happy, if only the Dardanian ships had never touched our... | |
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