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Virgil Quotes

Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a Roman poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.

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Also known as: Bucolics, Publius Vergilius Maro, Publius Virgilius Maro, Vergil, Vergilius, Virgilio

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O thrice, four times happy they!

Cloaking the truth in mystery.

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

Georgics (-29)

So strong is habit in tender years.

Georgics (-29)

We cannot all do everything.

Eclogues (-37)

There is no place for death.

Georgics (-29)

An ornament and a safeguard.

Aeneid (-19)

The picture of paternal affection.

Nay, had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime, or rehearse all the tale of torments.

Aeneid (-19)

How changed from what he once was!

Aeneid (-19)

We bear each one our own destiny.

What madness has seized you?

Eclogues (-37)

How fortunate, both at once!
If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn
that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while
the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken,
not while the Roman Father rules the world.

Aeneid (-19)

Persevere: It is fitting, for a better fate awaits the afflicted.

By her gait the goddess was known.

One cry was common to them all.

A woman was leader in the deed.

Fear gave wings to his feet.

Aeneid (-19)

I sing of arms and a man.

Aeneid (-19)

Euryalus
In death went reeling down,
And blood streamed on his handsome length, his neck
Collapsing let his head fall on his shoulder—
As a bright flower cut by a passing plow
Will droop and wither slowly, or a poppy
Bow its head upon its tired stalk
When overborne by a passing rain.

Aeneid (-19)

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