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Author QuotedPublius Ovidius Naso
Title QuotedMetamorphoses
Date (Year/Month/Day)1968/11/11
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Quotation"Exemploque pari furit omnis turba, suoque Marte cadunt subiti per mutua vulner a fraters." "The same madness raged through them all, and those who had been brothers an hour before perished by wounds they gave each other." (Ovid, Metamorphoses III)
Quotation SourceThe Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 271
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