Quotes from Aeneid — Virgil
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An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.
Amid the friendly silence of the peaceful moon.
Let someone arise from my bones as an Avenger.
I feel once more the scars of the old flame.
Can such resentment hold the minds of gods?
Do the gods light this fire in our hearts
or does each man's mad desire become his god?
There all stood begging to be first across
And reached out longing hands to the far shore.
Obscure they went through dreary shades, that led
Along the waste dominions of the dead.
Sorrow too deep to tell, your majesty,
You order me to feel and tell once more.
To what extremes won't you compel our hearts,
you accursed lust for gold?
And with a groan for that indignity
His spirit fled into the gloom below.
Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.
Jove almighty,
nod assent to the daring work I have in hand!
Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.
Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.
Procul, O procul este, profani!
Unconscionable Love,
To what extremes will you not drive our hearts!
They can because they think they can.
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