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Quotes About Sabines

Ubi tu Gaius, ego Gaia, she would say to her husband, who lifted her in his arms to cross the threshold, in memory (so it was believed) of the rape of the Sabines, but doubtless also because the threshold was sacred: it was the god Limentinus.
~ Robert Turcan
paintings. I recognized "The Rape of the Sabines," by Da Bologna, which is one of the few classical paintings I can name.
~ Nelson DeMille
This life the old Sabines knew long ago; Remus knew it, and his brother.
~ Virgil