“Sorrow too deep to tell, your majesty,
You order me to feel and tell once more.”

—  Virgil, book Aeneid

Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 3 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald); these are the opening words of Aeneas's narrative about the fall of Troy, addressed to Queen Dido of Carthage.

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