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Prayer to Apollo

Apollo
Grant us our own, Lord of Thymbra, grant the tired and worn, and their children, a city behind defensive walls in a tamed land. Safeguard a new Troy, built by those Trojan sons who escaped the Greeks and severe Achilles. Who now must I follow? Where do you urge me to go? Grant, Father, a sign, and flow into our souls.
Fons · Source
AuthorVirgil
WorkAeneid
Section3.85-89
PeriodAugustan
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Cultureroman
Formliterary
DeitiesApollo
Functionspetition · invocation
Spherecivic · military · family