# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> You're running away—from me? Oh, I pray you
>
> by these tears, by the faith in your right hand—
>
> what else have I left myself in all my pain?—
>
> by our wedding vows, the marriage we began,
>
> if I deserve some decency from you now,
>
> if anything mine has ever won your heart,
>
> pity a great house about to fall, I pray you,
>
> if prayers have any place—reject this scheme of yours!

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Mene fugis? Per ego has lacrimas dextramque tuam te / (Quando aliud mihi jam miserae nihil ipsa reliqui) / Per connubia nostra, per inceptos Hymenaeos; / Si bene quid de te merui, fuit aut tibi quidquam / Dulce meum, miserere domus labentis, et istam, / Oro, si quis adhuc precibus locus, exue mentem.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_IV) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/youre-running-away-from

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