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.
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