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Cassandra, daughter of king Priam, every day foretold the overthrow of the city; but the pride and presumption of the Trojans prevented them from believing her word. Even on the very night that the city was betrayed, she clearly described the treachery and the method of it: " tales casus Cassandra canebat,"
The whole poem, with its references to old myths, is merely a rehearsal of schoolroom reminiscences, as might have been guessed from the fine Lucretian rhythms with which it begins: Namque canebat, uti magnum per inane coacta Semina terrarumque animaeque marisque fuissent Et liquidi simul ignis; ut his exordia primis Omnia et ipse tener mundi concreverit orbis; Tum durare solum et discludere Nerea ponto Coeperit, et rerum paulatim sumere formas; Iamque novum terrae stupeant lucescere solem.
"God is together gammen and wisedom." The same ornament of speech is also frequent in the Latin language. Virgil says, "Tales casus Cassandra canebat." And again, in his address to Augustus, "Dum dubitet natura marem, faceretve puellam, Natus es, o pulcher, pene puella, puer."