Silius Italicus Quotes

...ceu tigride cerva
Hyrcana cum pressa tremit, vel territa pennas
colligit accipitrem cernens in nube columba,
aut dumis subit, albenti si sensit in aethra
librantem nisus aquilam, lepus.

Pax optima rerum
quas homini novisse datum est, pax una triumphis
innumeris potior, pax custodire salutem
et civis aequare potens revocetur in arcis
tandem Sidonias, et fama fugetur ab urbe
perfidiae, Phoenissa, tua.

Quantis armati caelum petiere Gigantes
anguibus, aut quantus Lernae lassavit in undis
Amphitryoniaden serpens, qualisque comantis
auro servauit ramos Junonius anguis.

Stat nulla diu mortalibus usquam,
Fortuna titubante, fides.

Quoque magis subiere iugo atque euadere nisi
erexere gradum, crescit labor. ardua supra
sese aperit fessis et nascitur altera moles.

Virtue is indeed its own noblest reward; yet the dead find it sweet, when the fame of their lives is remembered among the living and oblivion does not swallow up their praises.

Congesto laevae quodcumque avellitur auro
metitur Latias victrix Carthago ruinas.

He was ever first to undertake hardship.

Ordior arma, quibus caelo se gloria tollit
Aeneadum, patiturque ferox Oenotria iura
Carthago.

Victorious Carthage measures the downfall of Rome by all the heap of gold that was torn from the left hands of the slain.

Mecum Honor ac Laudes et laeto Gloria vultu
et Decus ac niveis Victoria concolor alis.

At patulo surgens iam dudum ex aequore late
nauticus implebat resonantia litora clamor,
et simul adductis percussa ad pectora tonsis
centeno fractus spumabat verbere pontus.

The higher they climbed in their struggle to reach the top, the harder grew their toil. When one height had been mastered, a second opens and springs up before their aching sight.

Explorant adversa viros, perque aspera duro
nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo.

Ad limina sanctae
contendit Fidei secretaque pectora temptat.
arcanis dea laeta polo tum forte remoto
caelicolum magnas uoluebat conscia curas.
quam tali adloquitur Nemeae pacator honore:
'Ante Iouem generata, decus diuumque hominumque,
qua sine non tellus pacem, non aequora norunt,
iustitiae consors...'