Quotes from book

Pharsalia

“[She] is not permitted to reveal as much as she is suffered to know.”
Nec tantum prodere vati quantum scire licet.

“So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.”
Usque adeo solus ferrum mortemque timere auri nescit amor.

“You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.”
Unica belli praemia civilis, victis donare salutem, perdidimus.

“Serpents, thirst, burning-sand – all are welcomed by the brave; endurance finds pleasure in hardship; virtue rejoices when it pays dear for its existence.”
Serpens, sitis, ardor harenae dulcia virtuti; gaudet patientia duris; laetius est, quotiens magno sibi constat, honestum.

“The dead are free from Fortune; Mother Earth has room for all her children, and he who lacks an urn has the sky to cover him.”
Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellus quae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.

“More was lost there than mere life and existence: we were overthrown for all time to come.”
Plus est quam vita salusque quod perit: in totum mundi prosternimur aevum.

“Might became the standard of right.”
Mensuraque juris vis erat.

“Pompey lives after his battles, but his fortune has perished.”
Vivit post proelia Magnus sed fortuna perit.

“Which had the fairer pretext for warfare, we may not know: each has high authority to support him; for, if the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato.”
Quis iustius induit arma scire nefas: magno se iudice quisque tuetur; Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni.

“Crime levels those whom it pollutes.”
Facinus quos inquinat aequat.

“How ready are the gods to grant supremacy to men, and how unready to maintain it!”
O faciles dare summa deos eademque tueri difficiles!

“Learn what life requires,
How little nature needs!”
Discite, quam parvo liceat producere vitam, Et quantum natura petat.

“And now cruel famine came – famine that is ever first in the train of great disasters.”
Jamque comes semper magnorum prima malorum<br/>saeva fames aderat.

“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
Audendo magnus tegitur timor.

“Either no feeling remains to the soul after death, or death itself matters not at all.”
Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictum aut mors ipsa nihil.

“The hungry slave
Brings danger to his master, not himself.”
Non sibi sed domino grauis est quae seruit egestas.

“When the existence and safety of so many nations depend upon your single life, and so large a part of the world has chosen you for its head, it is cruel of you to court death.”
Cum tot in hac anima populorum vita salusque pendeat et tantus caput hoc sibi fecerit orbis, saevitia est voluisse mori.

“He would rather burst a city gate than find it open to admit him.”
Non tam portas intrare patentis quam fregisse juvat.

“The mere shadow of a mighty name he stood.”
Stat magni nominis umbra.