Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on December 10, 2007
Literary Imagination 2008 10(1):17-18; doi:10.1093/litimag/imm119
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Vergil: The Aeneid 2.199–249
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But then there is
An event more frightful still, that comes upon us
Unprovided unforeseeing souls.
Laocoön, chosen by lot to be
The priest of Neptune, was in the act of performing
The sacrifice of a great bull at the altar
When, lo, I shudder to speak it, over the tranquil
Quiet sea that lies between the island
Of Tenedos and the mainland, there comes. . . [Full Text of this Article]