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Metamorphoses
Book 15, Line 35 by Henry T. Riley (English)
Or, as when Romulus once saw his lance, fixed in the Palatine hill, suddenly shoot forth; which now stood there with a root newly-formed, and not with the iron point driven in; and, now no longer as a dart, but as a tree with limber twigs, it sent forth, for the admiring spectators , a shade that was not looked for.
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