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“A man, an adult, is precisely what he [Aeneas] is: Achilles had been little more than a passionate boy.”

— C. S. Lewis

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Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis
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Context

A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942), Chapter 6: "Virgil and the Subject of Secondary Epic"

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Lewis, C. S.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

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