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Quote of the day: As for Maroboduus, he called him a fugit
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The Aeneid by Virgil
translated by Theodore C. Williams
Book VIII Chapter 28: The gift is gratefully accepted
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Such was the blazoned shield his mother gave
from Vulcan's forge; which with astonished eyes
Aeneas viewed, and scanned with joyful mind
such shadows of an unknown age to be;
then on his shoulder for a burden bore
the destined mighty deeds of all his sons.

Event: Venus gives Aeneas the armour

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Talia per clipeum Volcani, dona parentis,
miratur rerumque ignarus imagine gaudet
attollens umero famamque et fata nepotum.