# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> And here are troops of men
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> who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country,
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> and those who had been pure priests while still alive,
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> and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus;
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> those who enriched our lives with the newfound arts they forged
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> and those we remember well for the good they did mankind.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Hic manus, ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi, / Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, / Quique pii vates, et Phoebo digna locuti, / Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, / Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_VI) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/and-here-are

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