[19-46] ‘I was sacrificing in honour of my new undertaking, when I found blood dropping from the roots of some cornel and myrtle branches which I was pulling up for the altars, and a voice came from the soil where they stood, telling me that the murdered Polydorus was buried there, and that they were the spears which had been fixed in his body.’
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John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.
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