“I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below
to shadows.”

—  Virgil , Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 659–660 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)

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‘Moriemur inultae, Sed moriamur’ ait. ‘sic, sic juvat ire sub umbras.’

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