{"id":831,"date":"2011-03-02T11:16:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=831"},"modified":"2013-08-29T17:14:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:14:38","slug":"analects-of-the-core-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/03\/02\/analects-of-the-core-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Virgil on Aeneas’ last words to Dido"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cDido, do forlorn,<\/p>\n

The story then that came to me was true,<\/p>\n

That you were out of life, had met your end<\/p>\n

By your own hand. Was I, was I the cause?<\/p>\n

I swear by heaven’s stars, by the high gods,<\/p>\n

By any certainty below the earth,<\/p>\n

I left your land against my will, my queen.<\/p>\n

The gods’ commands drove me to do their will,<\/p>\n

As now they drive me through this world of shades,<\/p>\n

These mouldy waste lands and depths of night.<\/p>\n

And I could not believe that I would hurt you<\/p>\n

So terribly by going. Wait a little.<\/p>\n

Do not leave my sight.<\/p>\n

Am I someone to flee from? The last word<\/p>\n

Destiny lets me say to you is this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– Virgil, The Aeneid<\/a> (Book VI, 613-628)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDido, do forlorn, The story then that came to me was true, That you were out of life, had met your end By your own hand. Was I, was I the cause? I swear by heaven’s stars, by the high gods, By any certainty below the earth, I left your land against my will, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[5126,48735,4572,5125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}