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The lyrics to this great song contain the following lines: "I am goin’ to teach peace to the conquered, "I’m gonna tame the proud." Lots of other people have apparently noticed this before, but I just realized that the lines are a paraphrase of some lines in the Aeneid, when Aeneas’s father, Anchises, in the Underworld, tells him what the mission of Rome will be: ". . . to establish peace, "To spare the humbled, and to conquer the proud." Anchises’s speech also foretells the history of the early Roman kings.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 02:42:53 +0000

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