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PART II - Mirabile dictu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2015

Llewelyn Morgan
Llewelyn Morgan
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It is good for the world that such things should be done. The old heart of the earth needed to be warmed with the red wine of the battlefield. Such august homage was never before offered to God as this, the homage of millions of lives given gladly for love of country.

Pádraic Pearse, December I9I5, in Political Writings and Speeches (Dublin, 1952), 216.
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Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics , pp. 103 - 104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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  • Mirabile dictu
  • Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
  • Book: Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics
  • Online publication: 05 July 2015
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549410.005
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  • Mirabile dictu
  • Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
  • Book: Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics
  • Online publication: 05 July 2015
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549410.005
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  • Mirabile dictu
  • Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
  • Book: Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics
  • Online publication: 05 July 2015
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549410.005
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