1.16.2010

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"So he prayed, and far in the depths they heard him, all the Nereids, Phorcus' chorus, virgin Panopea and Father Portunas himself, with his own mighty hand, drove the racing Scylla swifter than Southern winds or a winging arrow, speeding toward the shore to find her berth in the good deep-water harbor."

- Bk. 5, lines 267-72, Virgil's Aeneid, Robert Fagles trans.

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