Allen Mandelbaum Quotes

Allen Mandelbaum was an American professor of literature and the humanities, poet, and translator from Classical Greek, Latin and Italian. His translations of classic works gained him numerous awards in Italy and the United States. Wikipedia

✵ 4. May 1926 – 27. October 2011

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Famous Allen Mandelbaum Quotes

“For other peoples will, I do not doubt,
still cast their bronze to breathe with softer features,
or draw out of the marble living lines,
plead causes better, trace the ways of heaven
with wands and tell the rising constellations;
but yours will be the rulership of nations,
remember Roman, these will be your arts:
to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer,
to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud.”

Allen Mandelbaum

Book VI, lines 1129–1137
The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)

“I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
had made him fugitive; he was the first
to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
as Italy and the Lavinian shores.”

Allen Mandelbaum

Book I, lines 1–4
The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)

“Euryalus, is it
the gods who put this fire in our minds,
or is it that each man's relentless longing
becomes a god to him?”

Allen Mandelbaum

Book IX, lines 243–246
The Aeneid of Virgil (1971)

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