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The Euphrates
Euphrates
The great river of the East; war stirs from it, and Caesar thunders by it as Virgil writes.
Reading notes
- The Aeneid §8.726 Euphrates
The Euphrates, flowing 'gentler' now in token of the pacified East.
- The Georgics §1.509 Euphrates
The great eastern river, from which war stirs at the poem's close.