Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua… - Virgil

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Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur
Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris,
Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto,
Sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.

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

Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum
Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.

How fortunate, both at once!
If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn
that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while
the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken,
not while the Roman Father rules the world.

Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa a… - Virgil

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