Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings. — Virgil
Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings.
In the original Latin
Nox ruit et fuscit tellurem amplectitur alis.
Aeneid · 19 BC
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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 8.
Original citation
Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 8.
