“Mantua, the home of the Muses, raised to the skies by immortal verse, and a match for the lyre of Homer.”
Mantua, Musarum domus atque ad sidera cantu
evecta Aonio et Smyrnaeis aemula plectris.
Book VIII, lines 593–594
Punica
“Go, raise great Troy by prowess to the Skies.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
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