Publio Virgilio Marone: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)

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“Fear gave wings to his feet.”
Pedibus timor addidit alas.

Virgil Eneide

Origine: 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 Georgiche

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 Georgiche

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 Eneide

Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Origine: 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 libro Bucoliche

Book IV, line 60 (tr. Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)

“The gods thought otherwise.”
Dis<!--Diis?--> aliter visum.

Virgil Eneide

Dis aliter visum.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 428

“Above all, worship the gods.”
In primis venerare Deos.

Virgil Georgiche

Book I, line 338 (tr. Fairclough)
Georgics (29 BC)

“I sing of arms and a man.”
Arma virumque cano.

Virgil Eneide

Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 1

“Wonderful to tell.”
Mirabile dictu.

Virgil Eneide

Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 439

“The attempts to heal enflame the fever more.”
Aegrescitque medendo.

Virgil Eneide

Origine: 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 Eneide

Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 33 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

“Data fata secutus.”

Virgil Eneide

Following what is decreed by fate.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 382

“Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.”

Virgil Eneide

Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 118 (tr. Fairclough)

“Yield to God.”

Virgil Eneide

Cede Deo.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 467

“Hug the shore.”

Virgil Eneide

(la) Litus ama.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 163 (tr. Fairclough)

“A snake lurks in the grass.”

Virgil libro Bucoliche

(la) Latet anguis in herba.
Book III, line 93
Eclogues (37 BC)