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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.
Also known as: Bucolics, Publius Vergilius Maro, Publius Virgilius Maro, Vergil, Vergilius, Virgilio
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In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
Georgics (-29)
"I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
Aeneid (-19)
The gates of hell are open night and day;
Aeneid (-19)
And for exile they change their homes and pleasant thresholds, and seek a country lying beneath another sun.
He prays to the spirit of the place, and to Earth, the first of the gods, and to the Nymphs and as yet unknown rivers.
It may be that in the future you will be helped by remembering the past.
The sun when setting makes the increasing shadows twice as large.
O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.
Georgics (-29)
Small in number, but their valor tried in war, and glowing.
An immense, misshapen, marvelous monster whose eye is out.
The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.
Eclogues (-37)
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
Georgics (-29)
O charming boy, trust not too much in thy beauty.
He follows his father, but not with equal steps.
The great line of the centuries begins anew.
Eclogues (-37)
Thus Fortune on our first endeavour smil'd.
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Eclogues (-37)
If we may compare small things with great.
Georgics (-29)
Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws,
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