Aeneid 2.707–708

Aeneas to Anchises as they prepare to flee Troy

Ergo age, care pater, cervici imponere nostrae;

ipse subibo umeris, nec me labor iste gravabit:

Come then, dear father, climb upon my neck.

I will take you on my shoulders; that burden will not weigh on me.

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