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Quotations by Virgil
I shudder recounting.
[Horresco réferens]
Each of us bears his own hell.
[Quisque suos patimur Manes.]
Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate,
And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate,
Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore.
Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore,
And in the doubtful war, before he won
The Latian realm, and built the destin’d town;
His banish’d gods restor’d to rites divine,
And settled sure succession in his line,
From whence the race of Alban fathers come,
And the long glories of majestic Rome.[Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit
litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram,
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem
inferretque deos Latio; genus unde
Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.]Virgil (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]
Aeneid Book 1, line 1 (c. 29-19 BC) [tr. Dryden]
Alt trans: "I sing of arms and a man he who, exiled by fate, first came from the coast of Troy to Italy, and to Lavinian shores – hurled about endlessly by land and sea, by the will of the gods, by cruel Juno’s remorseless anger, long suffering also in war, until he founded a city and brought his gods to Latium: from that the Latin people came, the lords of Alba Longa, the walls of noble Rome."
Perhaps, one day, remembering even these things will bring pleasure.
[Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.]
Trust one who has gone through it.
[Experto crédite.]
Being not unacquainted with woe, I learn to help the unfortunate.
[Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco.]
Fortune favors the brave.
[Audentes fortuna iuvat]
Fortune favors the brave.
The gods thought otherwise.
[Dis áliter visum]
Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Grecians, even bearing gifts.
[Equo ne credite, Teucri.
quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
… I saw these terrible things,
and took great part in them.[… quaeque ipse miserrima vidi
et quorum pars magna fui.]
O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men!
[Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!]
A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing.
[Varium et mutabile semper femina.]
Virgil (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]
Aeneid, Book 4, l. 569 (c. 29-19 BC)
Alt. trans.:
- "My lord, you know what Virgil sings -- Woman is various and most mutable." [Tennyson, Queen Mary, Act 3, sc. 6]
- "Donna è mobile." [Verdi, Rigoletto (1851)]
- "A woman is always changeable and capricious."
I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.
[Vixi, et quem dederat cursum fortuna, peregi:
Et nunc magna mei sub terras currit imago.]
They are able because they think they are able.
[Possunt quia posse videntur.]
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
[Gratior ac pulchro veniens in corpore virtus.]
Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.
[Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.]
It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air —
There’s the rub, the task.[Fácilis descensus Averni:
noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras.
hoc opus, hic labor est.]
It is of benefit to have improved life through discovered knowledge.
[Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artis]
We can’t all do everything.
[Non omnia possumus omnes.]
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
[Ómnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori.]
It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.
Virgil (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]
Eclogues, Book 7 [Thyrsis] (c. 42 BC)
Quoted by Francis Bacon, "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates": "Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, 'It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.'"
Time bears away all things, even our minds.
[Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.]
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
[Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.]
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
[Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis paulatim.]
Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
[Audacibus annue coeptis]
Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says. “I am coming.”