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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  2, l. 774ff (2.774) [Aeneas] (29-19 BC) [tr. Dryden (1697)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aghast, astonish&#8217;d, and struck dumb with fear, I stood; like bristles rose my stiffen&#8217;d hair. [Obstupui, steteruntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.] Confronting his wife&#8217;s ghost. (Source (Latin)). Other translations: Amaz&#8217;d, struck dumb, erected was my hair. [tr. Ogilby (1649)] I stood aghast! my hair rose on end, and my voice clung to my jaws. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aghast, astonish&#8217;d, and struck dumb with fear,<br />
I stood; like bristles rose my stiffen&#8217;d hair.</p>
<p><em>[Obstupui, steteruntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.]</em></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70–19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  2, l. 774ff (2.774) [Aeneas] (29-19 BC) [tr. Dryden (1697)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Dryden)/Book_II#:~:text=Aghast%2C%20astonish%27d%2C%20and%20struck%20dumb%20with%20fear%2C%0AI%20stood%3B%20like%20bristles%20rose%20my%20stiffen%27d%20hair." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Confronting his wife's ghost. (<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=Obstipui&la=la&can=obstipui0&prior=imago">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>Amaz'd, struck dumb, erected was my hair.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.2?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Amaz%27d%2C%20struck%20dumb%2C%20erected%20was%20my%20hair.">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>I stood aghast! my hair rose on end, and my voice clung to my jaws.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22stood%20aghast%20my%20hair%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I stood appall'd, my hair erect,<br>
And fear my tongue-tied utterance checked.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_2#:~:text=I%20stood%20appall%27d%2C%20my%20hair%20erect%2C%0AAnd%20fear%20my%20tongue%2Dtied%20utterance%20checked">Conington</a> (1866)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Aghast I stood, with hair <br>
Erect: my voice clung to my throat.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n93/mode/2up?q=%22aghast+i+stood%22">Cranch</a> (1872), ll. 1041-42]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I was motionless; my hair stood up, and the accents faltered on my tongue.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#:~:text=I%20was%20motionless%3B%20my%20hair%20stood%20up%2C%20and%20the%20accents%20faltered%20on%20my%20tongue.">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I stood amazed, my hair rose up, nor from my jaws would pass<br>
My frozen voice.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#:~:text=I%20stood%20amazed,My%20frozen%20voice">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Aghast I stood, tongue-tied, with stiffening hair.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#:~:text=Aghast%20I%20stood%2C%20tongue%2Dtied%2C%20with%20stiffening%20hair.">Taylor</a> (1907), st. 104, l. 935]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I quailed, my hair rose, and I gasped for fear.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D2%3Acard%3D752#:~:text=I%20quailed%2C%20my%20hair%20rose%2C%20and%20I%20gasped%20for%20fear">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I was appalled, my hair stood up, and the voice clave to my throat.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L063NVirgilIEcloguesGeorgicsAeneid16/page/n353/mode/2up?q=%22I+was+appalled%22">Fairclough</a> (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I was appalled: my hair stood on end, and my voice struck<br>
In my throat.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22i+was+appalled%22">Day Lewis</a> (1952)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I was dismayed; <br>
my hair stood stiff, my voice held fast within <br>
my jaws.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/54/mode/2up?q=%22i+was+dismayed%22">Mandelbaum</a> (1971), ll. 1043-45]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Chilled to the marrow,  could feel the hair<br>
On my head rise, the voice clot in my throat.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/60/mode/2up?q=%22chilled+to+the+marrow%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1981), ll. 1004-5] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I was paralyzed. My hair stood on end. My voice stuck in my throat.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/54/mode/2up?q=%22stuck+in+my+throat%22">West</a> (1990)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>I was dumbfounded, my hair stood on end, and my voice<br>
stuck in my throat.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidII.php#anchor_Toc536009309:~:text=I%20was%20dumbfounded,in%20my%20throat.">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>I was transfixed,<br>
My hair stood on end, and my voice choked.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Essential_Aeneid/libMBPer2zcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22i%20was%20transfixed%22">Lombardo</a> (2005), ll. 913-14]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I froze. My hackles bristled, voice choked in my throat.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22froze%20my%20hackles%20bristled%22">Fagles</a> (2006), l. 960]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>I was aghast. My hair stood up, my voice stuck in my throat.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22i%20was%20aghast%22">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>
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