“My chief, let Fate cry on or back,
'Tis ours to follow, nothing slack:
Whate'er betide, he only cures
The stroke of Fortune who endures.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book V, p. 175

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British classical scholar 1825–1869

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