书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2781章 XXVI

"Augustus not so holy and benign Was as great Virgil's trumpet sounds his name, Because he savoured the harmonious line.

His foul proscription passes without blame.

That Nero was unjust would none divine, Nor haply would he suffer in his fame, Though Heaven and Earth were hostile, had he known The means to make the tuneful tribe his own.