WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from Virgil:
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With heapy Fires our chearful Hearth is crown’d;
And Firs for Torches in the Woods abound:
We fear not more the Winds, and wintry Cold,
Than Streams the Banks, or Wolves the bleating Fold.
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https://wist.info/virgil/5527/
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Eclogues [Eclogae, Bucolics, Pastorals], No. 7 "Meliboeus," l. 49ff (7.49-52) [Thyrsis] (42-38 BC) [tr. Dryden (1709), l. 70ff] - Virgil | WIST Quotations
With heapy Fires our chearful Hearth is crown'd; And Firs for Torches in the Woods abound: We fear not more the Winds, and wintry Cold, Than Streams the Banks, or Wolves the bleating Fold. [Hic focus et taedae pingues, hic plurimus ignis semper, et adsidua postes fuligine nigri; hic tantum…
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