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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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I sing for maidens and boys.

Misattributed

I am the poet who once tuned his song
On a slender reed and then leaving the woods
Compelled the fields to obey the hungry farmer,
A pleasing work. But now War's grim and savage ...

Attributed

Many colors blend into one.

Attributed

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming."

Attributed

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