“It is come—the last day and inevitable hour for Troy.”

—  Virgil , Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 324–325 (tr. Fairclough)

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Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus Dardaniae.

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