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Roman poet (1st century BC)

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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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Cecini pascua, rura, duces.

Color est e pluribus unus.

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

Mors aurem vellens, "vivite," ait, "venio."

Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores.

Facilius esse Herculi clavam quam Homero versum subripere.

Ille ego, qui quondam gracili modulatus avena
Carmen, et egressus silvis vicina coegi
Ut quamvis avido parerent arva colono,
Gratum opus agricolis, at nunc horrentia Martis ...

Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras.

Ulterius ne tende odiis.

Is it then so sad a thing to die?

Usque adeone mori miserum est?

Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.

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

Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.

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