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  • 'On the Trojans are these portents aimed; Jupiter himself hath bereft them of their wonted succour; nor do they abide Rutulian sword and fire.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • On this side the Tuscan river shuts us in; on that the Rutulian drives us hard, and thunders in arms about our walls.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Tiber, and Numicus 'sacred shore, and whose ploughshare goes up and down on the Rutulian hills and the Circaean headland, over whose fields

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • This one day sent thee first to war, this one day takes thee away, while yet thou leavest heaped high thy Rutulian dead.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • While Turnus fills the Rutulian minds with valour, Allecto on Stygian wing hastens towards the Trojans.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Do you rather, O winds, be pitiful, carry my bark on rock or reef; it is I, Turnus, who desire and implore you; or drive me on the cruel shoals of the Syrtis, where no Rutulian may follow nor rumour know my name. '

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • But they had agreed that, a much greater number of Rutulian colonists being enrolled than of Romans, no land should be distributed, except that which had been intercepted by the infamous decision; and that not a sod of it should be assigned to any Roman, until all the

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • It is the old story of the Rutulian hero; and now, in the very crisis and agony of the battle, while the Cotton

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • Amid the massacre he escaped to the refuge of Rutulian land and the armed defence of Turnus 'friendship.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Thou, Idmon, bear my message to the Phrygian monarch in this harsh wording: So soon as to-morrow's Dawn rises in the sky blushing on her crimson wheels, let him not loose Teucrian or Rutulian: let Teucrian and Rutulian arms have rest, and our blood decide the war; on that field let Lavinia be sought in marriage. '

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

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