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Sample text
He sees the wars of Troy set out in order: the battles famous now through all the world, the sons of Atreus and of Priam, and Achilles, savage enemy to both. He halted. As he wept, he cried: “Achates, where on this earth is there a land, a place that does not know our sorrows? Look! There is Priam! Here, too, the honorable finds its due and there are tears for passing things; here, too, things mortal touch the mind. ” He speaks. With many tears and sighs he feeds his soul on what is nothing but a picture.
And behind, the rest of them skims on along the sea; their mighty backs are curved in folds. The foaming salt surge is roaring. Now they reach the fields. Their eyes are drenched with blood and fire—they burn. They lick their hissing jaws with quivering tongues. We scatter at the sight, our blood is gone. They strike a straight line toward Laocoön. At first each snake entwines the tiny bodies of his two sons in an embrace, then feasts its fangs on their defenseless limbs. The pair next seize upon Laocoön himself, who nears to help his sons, carrying weapons.
But then indeed we burn to know, to ask the reasons; we were far too ignorant of so much wickedness, of Greek deception. Trembling, he carries on. His words are false: “ ‘The Greeks have often wanted to abandon the plain of Troy, to slip away, to flee, weary of this long war: would that they had! But each time they were blocked by bitter tempests across the waters, terrified because the south wind beat against their sails. Above all, when this high horse you see was ready, built of maple beams, storm clouds droned through the heavens.
