Talk:Rumor
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Titoxd(?!? - help us) 08:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
This is the excerpt from Vergil, Book IV of The Aeneid (174-188). In my opinion, it deserves to be added to the article.
Rumor, than whom no evil thing is faster:
speed is her life; each step augments her strength.
Small, a shiver, at first, she soon rears high.
She walks aground; her head hides in the clouds.
Men say that Earth, in fury at the gods,
bore this last child, a sister to the Giants.
She is swift of foot and nimble on the wing,
a horror, misshapen, huge. Beneath each feather
there lies a sleepless eye (wonder to tell!),
and a tongue, and speaking lips, and ears erect.
By night she flies far over the shadowed world
gibbering; sleep never comes to rest her eyes.
By day she sits at the watch high on a roof
or lofty tower, and terrifies great cities,
as much a vessel of slander as crier of truth.