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Rome may grow great beyond the seas and become a dreaded name, but Troy must not revive: occidit occideritque sinas cum nomine Troia (Verg. Aen. 12.828); 'It shall never be inhabited. . . . But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there,' etc. (Isaiah, 13.20, 21); 'But where I sought for Ilium's walls| The quiet sheep feeds and the tortoise crawls' (Byron, Don Juan, 4.77); Lucan, 9.969, etiam periere ruinae.


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