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The Eclogues; The Georgics; The Aeneid is unavailable, but you can change that!

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[542] Have named it, after their first founder, Italy. [543] That was our bourne.… [544] But rainy Orion rose, and the sea got up of a sudden: [545] We drove on chartless shoals, the winds wantonly pitched us [546] Far apart on the deep amid toppling waves and unchannelled [547] Reefs. A handful of us have drifted to your shores. [548] What manner of men are these? What land is this that allows them [549] Such barbarous ways? They bar us even from the sanctuary [550] Of the sands: they threaten,
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