“Fear gave wings to his feet.”
Pedibus timor addidit alas.
Virgil libro Eneide
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIII, Line 224 (tr. C. Day Lewis)
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“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 libro 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 libro 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 libro Eneide
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 1
“The attempts to heal enflame the fever more.”
Aegrescitque medendo.
Virgil libro 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 libro Eneide
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 33 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Virgil libro Eneide
Following what is decreed by fate.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 382
“Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.”
Virgil libro Eneide
Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 118 (tr. Fairclough)
Virgil libro Eneide
Cede Deo.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 467
Virgil libro Eneide
(la) Litus ama.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 163 (tr. Fairclough)
Virgil libro Bucoliche
(la) Latet anguis in herba.
Book III, line 93
Eclogues (37 BC)