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P. Vergilius Maro. "GALLUS". Eclogues. J. B. Greenough, Ed. Retrieved 2011-12-04. "Even now, methinks, I range o'er rocks, through echoing groves, and joy to launch Cydonian arrows from a Parthian bow."
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