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There is the same sad Cato-like stoicism in the words with which Æneas addresses himself to his final combat: "Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, Fortunam ex aliis." But the "dîs aliter visum" meets us at every step. Ripheus is the most just and upright among the warriors of Troy, but he is the first to fall. An inscrutable mystery hangs around the order of the world.
The familiar Sound in these Names destroys the Majesty of the Description; for this Reason I do not mention this Part of the Poem but to shew the natural Cast of Thought which appears in it, as the two last Verses look almost like a Translation of Virgil. ... Cadit et Ripheus justissimus unus Qui fuit in Teucris et servantissimus aequi, Diis aliter visum est ...
Cadit et Ripheus justissimus unus Qui fuit in Teucris et servantissimus aequi. Diis aliter visum. AEn. ii. 426. Then Ripheus fell in the unequal fight, Just of his word, observant of the right: Heav'n thought not so.
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