Virgil Quotes

Roman poet (1st century BC)

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.

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Native Name: Publius Vergilius Maro

Alternative Names: Vergil • Mantuan Swan • Swan of Mantua

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Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.

What a woman can do in frenzy.

They can because they think they can.

Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.

Who can deceive a lover?

Quae te dementia cepit!

Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes,
Flumina amem sylvasque inglorius.

Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes.

Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem.

Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus
Omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis,
Hoc virtutis opus.

Moriemur inultae,
Sed moriamur’ ait. ‘sic, sic juvat ire sub umbras.

Numquam, regina, negabo
Promeritam, nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae
Dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus.

Quantum mutatus ab illo.

Illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat
Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti.

Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus
Dardaniae.