“With kindly tact
The king did to the downcast heroes say,
'Twill be your turn to win another day.”
Grazioso il Re dice agli afflitti Eroi,
Un altra volta vincerete voi.
II, 50. Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 307.
La Giasoneide, o sia la Conquista del Vello d'Oro (1780)
Original
Grazioso il Re dice agli afflitti Eroi, | un'altra volta vincerete voi.
II, 50
La Giasoneide, o sia la Conquista del Vello d'Oro (1780)
Variant: Grazioso il Re dice agli afflitti Eroi,
Un altra volta vincerete voi.
Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 307.
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