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Temptanda via est, qua me quoque possim
Tollere humo victorque virum volitare per ora.
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I must attempt the path Whereby I may aspire to leave the earth. And soar a victor in the mouths of men.
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Book III, lines 8-9; translation per Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1906), p. 285.

 
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