Silius Italicus Quotes

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

Pelle moras! Brevis est magni Fortuna favoris.

Subito cum pondere victus,
insiliente mari, summergitur alveus undis.
scuta virum cristaeque et inerti spicula ferro
tutelaeque deum fluitant.

Aegris
nil mouisse salus rebus.

[Virtutis] dispar habitus: frons hirta nec umquam
composita mutata coma, stans vultus, et ore
incessuque viro propior laetique pudoris
celsa umeros niveae fulgebat stamine pallae.

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.

Congesto laevae quodcumque avellitur auro
metitur Latias victrix Carthago ruinas.

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

Deforme sub armis
vana superstitio est: dea sola in pectore Virtus
bellantum viget.

Crede vigori
femineo. Castum haud superat labor ullus amorem.

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.

Primus sumpsisse laborem.

Mantua, Musarum domus atque ad sidera cantu
evecta Aonio et Smyrnaeis aemula plectris.

Abscisa relincunt
membra gelu, fractosque asper rigor amputat artus.