“Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks!
Something greater than the Iliad is born.”

—  Propertius

Of Virgil’s Aeneid.
II, xxxiv, 65.
Elegies

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Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai! Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade.

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