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?”

“Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods!”
Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos.

“This man sold his country for gold.”
Vendidit hic auro patriam.

“An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.”
Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.

“Jove almighty,
nod assent to the daring work I have in hand!”
Iuppiter omnipotens, audacibus adnue coeptis.

“But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying.”
Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile<!--inreparabile?--> tempus.

“I shudder as I tell the tale.”
Horresco referens.

“A mind conscious of its own rectitude.”
Mens sibi conscia recti.

“There is no place for death.”
Nec morti esse locum.

“The noblest motive is the public good.”
Vincit amor patriae.

“Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.”
Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.

“Is it then so sad a thing to die?”
Usque adeone mori miserum est?

“Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.”
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.

“Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.”
Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.

“The leader of the enterprise a woman.”
Dux femina facti.

“Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.”
Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.

“Hunger that persuades to evil.”
Malesuada Fames.

“Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.”
Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.

“If only Jupiter would give me back
The past years and the man I was…”
O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos.

“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”
Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.

“Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.”
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

“Who can deceive a lover?”
Quis fallere possit amantem?

“Amid the friendly silence of the peaceful moon.”
Tacitae per amica silentia lunae.

“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.

“Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.”
Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum.

“Who could tell such things and still refrain from tears?”
Quis talia fando Temperet a lacrimis?

“It is easier to steal the club of Hercules than a line from Homer.”
Facilius esse Herculi clavam quam Homero versum subripere.

“Mind moves matter.”
Mens agitat molem.

“Give lilies with full hands.”
Manibus date lilia plenis.

“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”
Degeneres animos timor arguit.