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This end had Priam's destinies all this chance him fortune sent

DMI number:
42026
Poem Aliases
Virgil. Aeneid. Book 2.
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Evidence:
First Line:
This end had Priam's destinies all this chance him fortune sent
Last Line:
His head besides his shoulders laid his corpse no more of name
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Epic, and Extract / snippet from longer work
Themes:
Death[of Priam.], Fate / fortune / providence, War[Trojan War.], and The monarchy (heads of state)[King Priam.]
Related People
Author:
Thomas Phaer [Phayer]
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract, with variants, from 'The second booke of Eneidos', in Phaer's The Seuen First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgill (1558, ESTC S119232): sig. E3r.
Translated from:
Virgil
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Content/Publication
Title:
The poems of Horace [ESTC R712]
Page No(s):
sig. A4v (unpaged)
Poem Title:
[no title: embedded quotation]
Attribution:
these Lines of Phaer
Attributed To:
Thomas Phaer [Phayer]