Publius Vergilius Maro , usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues , the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him.Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome since the time of its composition. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and reach Italy, where his descendants Romulus and Remus were to found the city of Rome. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory. Wikipedia
“Give lilies with full hands.”
Manibus date lilia plenis.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 883
“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”
Degeneres animos timor arguit.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 13
“Fear gave wings to his feet.”
Pedibus timor addidit alas.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIII, Line 224 (tr. C. Day Lewis)
“Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.”
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
Book II, line 490 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough); homage to Lucretius.
John Dryden's translation:
: Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws,
Thro' known effects can trace the secret cause.
Georgics (29 BC)
“Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.”
Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis
paulatim.
Book I, lines 133–134
Georgics (29 BC)
“A greater history opens before my eyes,
A greater task awaits me.”
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Lines 44–45 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
“The gods thought otherwise.”
Dis<!--Diis?--> aliter visum.
Dis aliter visum.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 428
“Above all, worship the gods.”
In primis venerare Deos.
Book I, line 338 (tr. Fairclough)
Georgics (29 BC)
“I sing of arms and a man.”
Arma virumque cano.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 1
“The attempts to heal enflame the fever more.”
Aegrescitque medendo.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 46 (tr. Fagles)
“So hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.”
Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem!
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 33 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Following what is decreed by fate.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 382
“Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.”
Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 118 (tr. Fairclough)
(la) Litus ama.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 163 (tr. Fairclough)
(la) Latet anguis in herba.
Book III, line 93
Eclogues (37 BC)
