“She turned, and flashed upon their view
Her stately neck's purpureal hue;
Ambrosial tresses round her head
A more than earthly fragrance shed:
Her falling robe her footprints swept,
And showed the goddess as she stept.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 21

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British classical scholar 1825–1869

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