“Roman! be thine the sovereign arts of sway;
Nobly to rule, and make the world obey:
Give peace its laws; respect the prostrate foe:
Abase the lofty, and exalt the low.”
Book VI, lines 1134–1137
The Æneis (1817)
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Book VI, lines 1016–1018; Anchises to Aeneas.
Translations, Aeneid (2005)
p 44
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)
1960, Address at Convention Hall, Philadelphia
Context: In short, I believe in an America that is on the march — an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike — an America that is moving, doing, working, trying — a strong America in a world of peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the ability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people. But we cannot have such a world, and we cannot have such a peace, unless the United States has the vitality and the inspiration and the strength. If we continue to stand still, if we continue to lie at anchor, if we continue to sit on dead center, if we content ourselves with the easy life and the rosy assurances, then the gates will soon be open to a lean and hungry enemy.
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, pp. 225–226
“But such their power who rule with tyrant sway,
Whom most they loath the people most obey.”
Book XXXVII, line 774
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“But such their power who rule with tyrant sway,
Whom most they loath the people most obey.”
Ma 'l populo facea come i più fanno,
Ch'ubbidiscon più a quei che più in odio hanno.
Canto XXXVII, stanza 104 (tr. J. Hoole)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“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.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 851–853 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)