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Ovid: The Metamorphoses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Troy once was great in wealth and men and gave |
| | The clear implication in the above quote is that Rome, for all her imperial greatness at the time, will inevitably fail and fall (the reference to the Troy, the legendary source of the Roman people is clear enough). |
| | So under the final tributes to Caesar and Augustus there is a firmly established irony: whatever else the achievements of these great political men, their work will not last. |
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