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Bella, horrida bella, Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno.
Wars, horrid wars, I view—a field of blood,
And Tiber rolling with a purple flood.
— Lines 86–87 (translated by John Dryden); Sibyl's prophecy to Aeneas.
— Cf. Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech.
Tags: Bella, cerno, horrida, multo, sanguine, spumantem, Thybrim
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