We sighted, far away, dim hills and a low coast-line-Italy.
Achates was the first to hail, "Italy! Italy!" my comrades echoed in cheerful greeting.

Cum procul obscuros collis humileque videmus Italiam. Italiam primus conclamat Achates, Italiam laeto socii clamore salutant.

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Virgil. Aenē̆is [Aeneid]. 19 BC, bk. 3.

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Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 3.

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