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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  2, l. 204 (2.204) [Aeneas] (29-19 BC) [tr. Fairclough (1916)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shudder as I tell the tale. [Horresco réferens] Telling Dido of the terrible deaths of the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons. (Source (Latin)). Other translations: I shake to mention. [tr. Ogilby (1649)] I shudder at the relation. [tr. Davidson/Buckley (1854)] I quail, E&#8217;en now, at telling of the tale [tr. Conington (1866)] I [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I shudder as I tell the tale.</p>
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<br><b>Virgil</b> (70–19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  2, l. 204 (2.204) [Aeneas] (29-19 BC) [tr. Fairclough (1916)] 
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Telling Dido of the terrible deaths of the Trojan priest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n">Laocoön and his sons</a>.<br><br>

(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D2%3Acard%3D195#:~:text=tranquilla%20per%20alta%E2%80%94-,horresco%20referens,-%E2%80%94immensis%20orbibus%20angues">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>I shake to mention.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.2?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=(-,I%20shake%20to%20mention,-)%20through%20calme%20Seas">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>I shudder at the relation.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22shudder%20at%20the%20relation%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I quail,<br>
E'en now, at telling of the tale<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_2#:~:text=I%20quail%2C%0AE%27en%20now%2C%20at%20telling%20of%20the%20tale">Conington</a> (1866)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shudder as I tell.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n71/mode/2up?q=%22i+shudder+as+I+tell%22">Cranch</a> (1872)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shudder as I recall.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#:~:text=I%20shudder%20as%20I%20recall">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I tremble in the tale.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#BOOK_II:~:text=I%20tremble%20in%20the%20tale">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The tale I shudder to pursue<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#book2line127:~:text=the%20tale%20I%20shudder%20to%20pursue">Taylor</a> <br>(1907)]</blockquote>

<blockquote>I shudder as I tell.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D2%3Acard%3D195#:~:text=appeared%20a%20pair%20(-,I%20shudder%20as%20I%20tell,-)%0Aof%20vastly">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shudder even now,<br>
Recalling it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#:~:text=I%20shudder%20even,Recalling%20it">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Telling it makes me shudder.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22it+makes+me+shudder%22">Day-Lewis</a> (1952)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shudder<br>
to tell what happened.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/36/mode/2up?q=%22i+shudder%22">Mandelbaum</a> (1971)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shiver to recall it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22I+shiver+to+recall+it%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1981)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shudder at the memory of it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/36/mode/2up?q=%22i+shudder%22">West</a> (1990)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shudder to tell it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidII.php#anchor_Toc536009312:~:text=I%20shudder%20to%20tell%20it">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shudder to recall them.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essential_Aeneid/y8pgDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22shudder%20to%20recall%22">Lombardo</a> (2005)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I cringe to recall it now.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22i%20cringe%22">Fagles</a> (2006)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I shudder at the telling.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22i%20shudder%20at%20the%20telling%22">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>
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