Virgil: Quotes about love

Virgil was Ancient Roman poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Virgil: 276   quotes 13   likes

“Let my delight be the country, and the running streams amid the dells—may I love the waters and the woods, though I be unknown to fame.”
Rura mihi et rigui placeant in vallibus amnes, Flumina amem sylvasque inglorius.

Virgil Georgics

Book II, lines 485–486 (tr. Fairclough)
Georgics (29 BC)

Love , Water , Country

“Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.”
Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.

Virgil book Eclogues

The Eclogues
Eclogues (37 BC)
Variant: Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!

Love , Smile

“Unconscionable Love,
To what extremes will you not drive our hearts!”
Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!

Virgil Aeneid

Compare:
Σχέτλι᾽ Ἔρως, μέγα πῆμα, μέγα στύγος ἀνθρώποισιν,
ἐκ σέθεν οὐλόμεναί τ᾽ ἔριδες στοναχαί τε γόοι τε,
ἄλγεά τ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν ἀπείρονα τετρήχασιν.
Unconscionable Love, bane and tormentor of mankind, parent of strife, fountain of tears, source of a thousand ills.
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, IV, 445–447 (tr. E. V. Rieu)
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 412 (tr. Fitzgerald)

Love , Heart

“Now I know what Love is.”
Nunc scio quid sit Amor.

Virgil book Eclogues

Book VIII, line 43 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan)
Eclogues (37 BC)

Love

“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
Amor omnibus idem.

Virgil Georgics

Book III, lines 242–244 (tr. John Dryden).
Georgics (29 BC)

Love