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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Audacibus annue coeptis.

Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum
Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.

Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.

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.

Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem,
Fortunam ex aliis.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores.

Varium et mutabile semper
Femina.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.

Pedibus timor addidit alas.

Color est e pluribus unus.

Parvis componere magna.

Possunt, quia posse videntur.

Umida solstitia atque hiemes orate serenas,
agricolae.