Virgile citations

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“Anna ma sœur, quelles visions nocturnes m'inquiètent et m'effraient! Quel est ce nouvel hôte entré dans nos demeures!”
Anna soror, quae me suspensam insomnia terrent! Quis novus hic nostris successit sedibus hospes!

“Quoi qu'il en soit, je crains les Danaens même quand ils portent des offrandes.”
Quicquid est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

“Muses de Sicile, élevons un peu le sujet de nos chants.”
Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus.

“La Fortune favorise les audacieux.”
Audentes fortuna juvat.

“Ils allaient obscurs sous la nuit solitaire parmi l'ombre, à travers les palais vides de Dis et son royaume d'apparences; ainsi par une lune incertaine, sous une clarté douteuse, on chemine dans les bois quand Jupiter a enfoui le ciel dans l'ombre et que la nuit noire a décoloré les choses.”

“Toi, Tityre, étendu sous le couvert d'un large hêtre, tu essaies un air silvestre sur un mince pipeau; nous autres, nous quittons notre pays et nos chères campagnes; loin du pays nous sommes exilés; toi, Tityre, nonchalant sous l'ombrage, tu apprends aux bois à redire le nom de la belle Amaryllis.”

“Je vais chanter la guerre et celui qui, exilé prédestiné (tout a commencé par lui), vint, des parages de Troie, en Italie, à Lavinium, sur le rivage. Lui qui, sur terre et sur mer, fut longtemps le jouet des puissances célestes, à cause de la rancune tenace de la cruelle Junon; qui eut tant à souffrir de la guerre, pour fonder à ce prix une ville et installer ses Pénates dans le Latium. D'où la nation latine, Albe et ses Anciens, et les murailles de la noble Rome. Muse, dis-m'en les raisons : quelque divinité offensée? Quelque grief de la reine des dieux, qui aura amené un homme à parcourir un pareil cycle de malheurs, à affronter autant d'épreuves? De pareilles rancunes en des âmes célestes?”

“What a woman can do in frenzy.”
Furens quid Femina possit.

“Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming."”
Mors aurem vellens, "vivite," ait, "venio."

“In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:
Discolored sickness, anxious labor, come,
And age, and death's inexorable doom.”
Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.

“What madness has seized you?”
Quae te dementia cepit!

“At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.”
Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat.

“Roman, remember by your strength to rule
Earth's people—for your arts are to be these:
To pacify, to impose the rule of law,
To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.”
Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.

“Let someone arise from my bones as an Avenger.”
Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor.

“They who bettered life on earth by new-found mastery.”
Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes.

“Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.”
Equo ne credite, Teucri. quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.

“Prepared for either alternative.”
In utrumque paratus.

“Now, Aeneas, is the hour for courage, now for a dauntless heart!”
Nunc animis opus, Aenea, nunc pectore firmo.

“I sing for maidens and boys.”
Virginibus puerisque canto.

“I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below
to shadows.”
‘Moriemur inultae, Sed moriamur’ ait. ‘sic, sic juvat ire sub umbras.’

“Trust not too much to that enchanting face;
Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.”
O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori.

“How fortunate, both at once!
If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn
that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while
the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken,
not while the Roman Father rules the world.”
Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.

“We cannot all do everything.”
Non omnia possumus omnes.

“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.”
Facilis descensus Averno<!--Averni?-->: Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est.

“In those days I, Virgil, was nursed of sweet Parthenope, and rejoiced in the arts of inglorious ease.”
Illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti.

“Sorrow too deep to tell, your majesty,
You order me to feel and tell once more.”
Infandum, regina, jubes<!--iubes?--> renovare dolorem.

“So strong is habit in tender years.”
Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.

“Time bears away all things, even our minds.”
Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.

“I sang of pastures, farms, and commanders.”
Cecini pascua, rura, duces.

“I sail for Italy not of my own free will.”
Italiam non sponte sequor.

“Let fraud supply the want of force in war.”

“As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.”
Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, Maiorumque fames.

“I cannot bear a mother's tears.”
Nequeam lacrimas perferre parentis.

“No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.”
Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.

“I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen,
never regret my memories of Dido, not while I
can recall myself and draw the breath of life.”
Numquam, regina, negabo Promeritam, nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae Dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus.

“Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.”
Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, Fortunam ex aliis.