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Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram, Multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem lnferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.
— Cf. the opening lines of Homer's Odyssey (as translated by Alexander Pope): The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd, / Long exercis'd in woes, oh Muse! resound. / . . . / On stormy seas unnumber'd toils he bore.
— Cf. also the opening lines of Camões' The Lusiads (as translated by William Julius Mickle): Arms and the Heroes, who from Lisbon's shore, / Thro' Seas where sail was never spread before / . . . / With prowess more than human forc'd their way / To the fair kingdoms of the rising day: / What wars they wag'd, what seas, what dangers past, / What glorious empire crown'd their toils at last.
