“O! trust not to the horse, my Trojan Friends!
Whate'er it means, it means but to deceive.
I dread the Grecians even when they give.”

— Charles Symmons

Book II, lines 66–68
The Æneis (1817)

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“O! trust not to the horse, my Trojan Friends!Whate'er it means, it means but to deceive.I dread the Grecians even when they give.”

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“O! trust not to the horse, my Trojan Friends!
Whate'er it means, it means but to deceive.
I dread the Grecians even when they give.”