shade embracing shade

              preface to The Aeneid of Virgil


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                                    V I R G I  L       : "Brother, there's no need-/ you are a shade, a shade is what you see."

                                    S T A  TI U S    : "Now you can understand/ how much love burns in me for you, when I/

                                                   forget our insubstantiality,/ treating the shades as one treats solid things."

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