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Thus, the Pilgrim Fathers of New England, the grandest profugi of all time, or even the bold adventurers of Spain, would have been moved only by intense suffering, in some form, to exchange their homes for a wilderness. The world is full of these wanderings, under various pretences of gain, adventure, or curiosity, hiding the real impulse of flight.
The very mention of Rome suggests the same continually repeated series of antecedent tragedy and consequent wandering, pointing backward to the fabled siege of Troy and the flight of Aeneas, "profugus" from Asia to Italy, and forward to the quick-coming footsteps of the Northern profugi, who were eager, even this side the grave, to enter the Valhalla of their dreams.
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