Virgil: Quotes about God
Virgil was Ancient Roman poet. Explore interesting quotes on god.
“Can such resentment hold the minds of gods?”
Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 11 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)
“Ye realms, yet unrevealed to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state!”
Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes,
Et Chaos, et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late,
Sit mihi fas audita loqui: sit numine vestro
Pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 264–267 (tr. John Dryden)
“Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods!”
Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 620 (H. Rushton Fairclough)
“Friends and companions,
Have we not known hard hours before this?
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
God will grant us an end to these as well.”
O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum—
O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Lines 198–199 (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)