Metamorphoses

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.

MetamorphosesBook 15, Line 35Henry T. RileyEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 15

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