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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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This shall be thy work: to impose conditions of peace, to spare the lowly, and to overthrow the proud.
Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one example the character of the nation may be known.
A woman is always fickle and changeable thing. Thus a woman is always a changeable and capricious thing.
Thy verses are as pleasing to me, O divine poet, as sleep is to the wearied on the soft turf.
Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
Do the gods light this fire in our hearts
Aeneid (-19)
Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
O boys, who pluck the flowers and strawberries springing from the ground, flee hence; a cold snake lies hidden in the grass.
She (Fame) walks on the earth, and her head is concealed in the clouds.
Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety.
The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.
It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron.
His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscle.
The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.
A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed.
Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
These who have ensured their remembrance by their deserts.
Keep close to the shore: let others venture on the deep.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.
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