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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Pedibus timor addidit alas.

Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt,
Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?

Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo; Majus opus moveo.

Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo,
Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum
Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.

Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.

There are twin Gates of Sleep.
One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn
and it offers easy passage to all true shades.
The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless,
but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky.

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming."

Procul, O procul este, profani!

Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.

Obscuris vera involvens.

Nec morti esse locum.

Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

Nequeam lacrimas perferre parentis.

Is it then so sad a thing to die?

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