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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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Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Aeneid (-19)
Learn, O youth, virtue from me and true labor; fortune from others.
Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.
Aeneid (-19)
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
Eclogues (-37)
Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods!
Aeneid (-19)
Being admonished, learn justice and despise not the gods.
Who could tell such things and still refrain from tears?
Aeneid (-19)
Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.
Aeneid (-19)
It is come—the last day and inevitable hour for Troy.
Aeneid (-19)
An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.
Aeneid (-19)
He utters empty words, he utters sound without mind.
Amid the friendly silence of the peaceful moon.
Aeneid (-19)
Let someone arise from my bones as an Avenger.
Aeneid (-19)
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
I feel once more the scars of the old flame.
Aeneid (-19)
A woman is always changeable and capricious.
Can such resentment hold the minds of gods?
Aeneid (-19)
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?
In those days I, Virgil, was nursed of sweet Parthenope, and rejoiced in the arts of inglorious ease.
Georgics (-29)
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