“I shudder as I tell the tale.”
Horresco referens.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 204 (tr. Fairclough)
“I quail,
E'en now, at telling of the tale.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 48
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