“There is no salvation in war.”
Nulla salus bello.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XI, Line 362 (tr. L. R. Lind)
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“To what extremes won't you compel our hearts,
you accursed lust for gold?”
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
Auri sacra fames?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, Lines 56–57 (tr. Robert Fagles); the murder of Polydorus.
“Now I know what Love is.”
Nunc scio quid sit Amor.
Book VIII, line 43 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan)
Eclogues (37 BC)
“If I cannot sway the heavens, I'll wake the powers of hell!”
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo<!--mouebo?-->.
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.
Variant translation:
: If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move Hell.
Compare:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667), Book I, line 263
If Heaven thou can'st not bend, Hell thou shalt move.
Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, line 307
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Line 312 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Juno.
“Away, away, unhallowed ones!”
Procul, O procul este, profani!
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 258 (tr. Fairclough)
“How changed from what he once was!”
Quantum mutatus ab illo.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 274
“Presence diminishes fame.”
Minuit praesentia famam.
Claudian, De Bello Gildonico, 385
Wrongly attributed to Virgil in an "undoubtedly spurious Italian epistle sometimes printed in <nowiki>[</nowiki>Dante's] works". (Edward Moore, Studies in Dante [1896], footnote on p. 240.)
Misattributed
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 494 (tr. Fairclough)
“Death's own brother Sleep.”
Consanguineus Leti Sopor.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 278 (tr. Fairclough)
“I will teach you your destiny.”
Te tua fata docebo.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 759 (tr. Stanley Lombardo)
“Go no further down the road of hatred.”
Ulterius ne tende odiis.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 938 (tr. Robert Fagles); Turnus asking Aeneas for mercy.
“There all stood begging to be first across
And reached out longing hands to the far shore.”
Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum
Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 313–314 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
“O three and four times blessed!”
O terque quaterque beati!
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 95
“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
Amor omnibus idem.
Book III, lines 242–244 (tr. John Dryden).
Georgics (29 BC)
“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.”
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.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 893–896 (tr. Fagles); the gates of horn and ivory.
“Your descendants shall gather your fruits.”
Carpent tua poma nepotes.
Book IX, line 50
Eclogues (37 BC)
“To compare great things with small.”
Parvis componere magna.
Book I, line 23 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)
“Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.”
Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.
John Dryden's translation:
: Endure the hardships of your present state,
Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 207 (tr. Fairclough); spoken by Aeneas.
“Nay, had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime, or rehearse all the tale of torments.”
Non, mihi si linguae centum sunt oraque centum
Ferrea vox, omnis scelerum comprendere formas,
Omnia poenarum percurrere nomina possim.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 625–627 (tr. H. R. Fairclough); the punishments of the Inferno.
“Fickle and changeable always is woman.”
Varium et mutabile semper
Femina.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 569–570