“And with a groan for that indignity
His spirit fled into the gloom below.”

—  Virgil , Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 952 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

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Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras.

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