„A szerencse kedvez a merészeknek.”
Audentes fortuna iuvat.
Publius Vergilius Maro híres idézetei
324-326. sor. <br class="br">Aeneas (i. e. 19 – i. e. 29), II. könyv <br class="br">Forrás: Vergilius: Aeneis http://mek.oszk.hu/06500/06540/06540.htm#20. II. 324-325. In. Vergilius összes művei. Bp.: Magyar Helikon, 1973. 103. p. <br class="br">Forrás: Szállóigék, mondások, kifejezések, bölcsességek http://tortenelem.fazekas.hu/uploads/237.doc. Történelem-filozófia honlap
Publius Vergilius Maro: Idézetek angolul
“Fear gave wings to his feet.”
Pedibus timor addidit alas.
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Forrás: 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.
Virgil Georgics
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.
Virgil Georgics
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.
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Forrás: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Lines 44–45 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
“Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.”
Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.
Virgil könyv Eclogues
Book IV, line 60 (tr. Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)
“The gods thought otherwise.”
Dis<!--Diis?--> aliter visum.
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Dis aliter visum.
Forrás: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 428
“Above all, worship the gods.”
In primis venerare Deos.
Virgil Georgics
Book I, line 338 (tr. Fairclough)
Georgics (29 BC)
“I sing of arms and a man.”
Arma virumque cano.
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Forrás: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 1
“The attempts to heal enflame the fever more.”
Aegrescitque medendo.
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Forrás: 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!
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Forrás: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 33 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Following what is decreed by fate.
Forrás: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 382
“Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.”
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.
Forrás: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 118 (tr. Fairclough)
Virgil könyv Aeneid
Cede Deo.
Forrás: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 467
Virgil könyv Aeneid
(la) Litus ama.
Forrás: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 163 (tr. Fairclough)
Virgil könyv Eclogues
(la) Latet anguis in herba.
Book III, line 93
Eclogues (37 BC)
