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Quotation from Heroides by Ovid

“Aeneas my eyes cling to through all my waking hours; Aeneas is my heart through the night and through the day.”

Ovid (spoken by Dido)

Heroides, Letter VII (Dido to Aeneas), trans. Grant Showerman (1914)

Dido confesses that she cannot stop loving the man who is leaving her.

Citation: "Aeneas my eyes cling to through all my waking hours; Aeneas is my heart through the night and through the day." — Ovid, Heroides, Letter VII (Dido to Aeneas), trans. Grant Showerman (1914). (id ovid-heroides-q4)

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