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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Greek and Roman writers on war and peace
Virgil: Age of peace
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Virgil
Translated by Charles Cotton
From Aeneid
Men plough, girt with arms; ever delighting in fresh robberies, and living by rapine.
Armati terram exercent, semperque recentes
Convectare juvat praedas; et vivere rapto.
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From Eclogues
Shall impious soldiers have these new-ploughed grounds?
Impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit!
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