# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> Dying, he slew; and, staggering on the plain,
>
> With swimming eyes he sought his lover slain;
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> Then quiet on his bleeding bosom fell,
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> Content, in death, to be revenged so well.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Moriens animam abstulit hosti. / Tum super exanimum sese proiecit amicum / Confossus, placidaque ibi demum morte quieuit.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_IX) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/dying-he-slew

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