“E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.”
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 23
“Even here, merit will have its true reward…
even here, the world is a world of tears
and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.”
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Lines 461–462 (tr. Robert Fagles)
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