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Mar 21: Virgil's AENEID

1,000 Years of History on the Surface of a Shield

Venus, mother of Aeneas and wife of Vulcan, obtained from
her husband, by seductive witchery, a marvelous shield whose
surface reflected a thousand years of future events. Venus describes
the wonders of the magic armor.

Read from Virgil's AENEID ...........................   Vol. 13, pp. 280-292