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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  6, l. 660ff (6.660-664) (29-19 BC) [tr. Fagles (2006), l. 764ff]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are troops of men who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country, and those who had been pure priests while still alive, and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus; those who enriched our lives with the newfound arts they forged and those we remember well for the good they did [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Here are troops of men<br />
who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country,<br />
and those who had been pure priests while still alive,<br />
and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus;<br />
those who enriched our lives with the newfound arts they forged<br />
and those we remember well for the good they did mankind.</p>
<p><em>[Hic manus, ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi,<br />
Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat,<br />
Quique pii vates, et Phoebo digna locuti,<br />
Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes,<br />
Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.]</em></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70-19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  6, l. 660ff (6.660-664) (29-19 BC) [tr. Fagles (2006), l. 764ff] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22troops%20of%20men%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Some of the blessed in Elysium. <br><br>

Fairclough (below) suggests that the "arts" <em>(artes)</em> refers not so much to material inventions as to philosophical principles. Note that the Nobel prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature include the similar <em>"Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes."</em><br><br>

(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D6%3Acard%3D637#:~:text=Hic%20manus%20ob%20patriam%20pugnando%20volnera%20passi%2C%0Aquique%20sacerdotes%20casti%2C%20dum%20vita%20manebat%2C%0Aquique%20pii%20vates%20et%20Phoebo%20digna%20locuti%2C%0Ainventas%20aut%20qui%20vitam%20excoluere%20per%20artes%2C%0Aquique%20sui%20memores%20alios%20fecere%20merendo">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>And here were those did for their countrey die,<br>
With Priests who in their lives vow'd chastitie;<br>
And sacred Poets who pleas'd Phoebus best,<br>
Or by invented arts man's life assist,<br>
And others in their memories renown'd,<br>
Their temples all with snowie garlands bound.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.6?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=And%20here%20were,snowie%20garlands%20bound.">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>Here patriots live, who, for their country's good,<br>
In fighting fields, were prodigal of blood:<br>
Priests of unblemish'd lives here make abode,<br>
And poets worthy their inspiring god;<br>
And searching wits, of more mechanic parts,<br>
Who grac'd their age with new-invented arts:<br>
Those who to worth their bounty did extend,<br>
And those who knew that bounty to commend.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Dryden)/Book_VI#:~:text=Here%20patriots%20live,bounty%20to%20commend.">Dryden</a> (1697)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here is a band of those who sustained wounds in fighting for their country; priests who preserved themselves pure and holy, while life remained; pious poets, who sung in strains worthy of Apollo; those who improved life by the invention of arts, and who by their worthy deeds made others remember them.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22band%20of%20those%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here sees he the illustrious dead<br>
Who fighting for their country bled;<br>
Priests, who while earthly life remained<br>
Preserved that life unsoiled, unstained;<br>
Blest bards, transparent souls and clear,<br>
Whose song was worthy Phœbus' ear;<br>
Inventors, who by arts refined<br>
The common life of human kind,<br>
With all who grateful memory won<br>
By services to others done.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_6#:~:text=Here%20sees%20he,to%20others%20done">Conington</a> (1866)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here the bands are seen, <br>
Of those who for their country fought and bled; <br>
The chaste and holy priests; the reverent bards <br>
Whose words were worthy of Apollo; those <br>
Who enriched life with the inventive arts; <br>
And all who by deserving deeds had made <br>
Their names remembered.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n209/mode/2up?q=%22here+the+bands%22">Cranch</a> (1872), l. 821ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here is the band of them who bore wounds in fighting for their country, and they who were pure in priesthood while life endured, and the good poets whose speech abased not Apollo; and they who made life beautiful by the arts of their invention, and who won by service a memory among men.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#:~:text=Here%20is%20the%20band%20of%20them%20who%20bore%20wounds%20in%20fighting%20for%20their%20country%2C%20and%20they%20who%20were%20pure%20in%20priesthood%20while%20life%20endured%2C%20and%20the%20good%20poets%20whose%20speech%20abased%20not%20Apollo%3B%20and%20they%20who%20made%20life%20beautiful%20by%20the%20arts%20of%20their%20invention%2C%20and%20who%20won%20by%20service%20a%20memory%20among%20men">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Lo, they who in their country's fight sword-wounded bodies bore;<br>
Lo, priests of holy life and chaste, while they in life had part;<br>
Lo, God-loved poets, men who spake things worthy Phœbus' heart:<br>
And they who bettered life on earth by new-found mastery;<br>
And they whose good deeds left a tale for men to name them by.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#:~:text=Lo%2C%20they%20who,name%20them%20by">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There, the slain patriot, and the spotless sage,<br>
And pious poets, worthy of the God;<br>
There he, whose arts improved a rugged age,<br>
And those who, labouring for their country's good,<br>
Lived long-remembered.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#:~:text=There%2C%20the%20slain%20patriot%2C%20and%20the%20spotless%20sage%2C%0AAnd%20pious%20poets%2C%20worthy%20of%20the%20God%3B%0AThere%20he%2C%20whose%20arts%20improved%20a%20rugged%20age%2C%0AAnd%20those%20who%2C%20labouring%20for%20their%20country%27s%20good%2C%0ALived%20long%2Dremembered">Taylor</a> (1907), st. 88, l. 784ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here dwell the brave who for their native land<br>
Fell wounded on the field; here holy priests<br>
Who kept them undefiled their mortal day;<br>
And poets, of whom the true-inspired song<br>
Deserved Apollo's name; and all who found<br>
New arts, to make man's life more blest or fair;<br>
Yea! here dwell all those dead whose deeds bequeath<br>
Deserved and grateful memory to their kind.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D6%3Acard%3D637#:~:text=Here%20dwell%20the,to%20their%20kind.">Williams</a> (1910), l. 669ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here is the band of those who suffered wounds, fighting for fatherland ; those who in lifetime were priests and pure, good bards, whose songs were meet for Phoebus; or they who ennobled life by truths discovered and they who by service have won remembrance among men.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L063NVirgilIEcloguesGeorgicsAeneid16/page/n559/mode/2up?q=%22here+is+the+band%22">Fairclough</a> (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">The band of heroes<br>
Dwell here, all those whose mortal wounds were suffered<br>
In fighting for the fatherland; and poets,<br>
The good, the pure, the worthy of Apollo;<br>
Those who discovered truth and made life nobler;<br>
Those who served others.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#BOOK_VI:~:text=The%20band%20of,who%20served%20others">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here were assembled those who had suffered wounds in defence of<br>
Their country; those who had lived pure lives as priests; and poets<br>
Who had not disgraced Apollo, poets of true integrity;<br>
Men who civilised life by the skills they discovered, and men whose<br>
Kindness to others has kept their memories green.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/148/mode/2up?q=%22here+were+assembled%22">Day-Lewis</a> (1952)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here was the company of those who suffered<br>
wounds, fighting for their homeland; and of those<br>
who, while they lived their lives, served as pure priests;<br>
and then the pious poets, those whose songs <br>
were worthy of Apollo; those who had<br>
made life more civilized with newfound arts;<br>
and those whose merits won the memory<br>
of all men.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/154/mode/2up?q=%22here+was+the+company%22">Mandelbaum</a> (1971), l. 874ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>This was the company of those who suffered<br>
Wounds in battle for their country; those<br>
Who i their lives were holy men and chaste<br>
Or worthy of Phoebus in prophetic song;<br>
Or those who betted life, by finding out <br>
New truths and skills; or those who to some folk<br>
By benefactions made themselves remembered.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/182/mode/2up?q=%22this+was+the+company%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1981), l. 883ff] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here were armies of men bearing wounds received while fighting for their native land, priests who had been chaste unto death and true prophets whose words were worthy of Apollo; then those who have raised human life to new heights by the skills they have discovered and those whom men remember for what they have done for men.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/152/mode/2up?q=%22here+were+armies%22">West</a> (1990)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Here is the company of those who suffered wounds fighting<br>
for their country: and those who were pure priests, while they lived,<br>
and those who were faithful poets, singers worthy of Apollo,<br>
and those who improved life, with discoveries in Art or Science,<br>
and those who by merit caused others to remember them.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVI.php#anchor_Toc2242936:~:text=Here%20is%20the,to%20remember%20them">Kline</a> (2002)]<br></blockquote>

<blockquote>Here were legions wounded fighting for their country, priests who'd led pure lives, pious poets with songs worthy of Apollo, men who bettered life by new inventions, and those whose merit set them down in memory.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22here%20were%20legions%22">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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