# The Aeneid

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Quotes: 298
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid

## Quotes

> But the trumpet with brazen song rang out afar its fearful call; a shout follows and the sky re-echoes.

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> Chance joins with force to guide the steel.

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> Valiant of tongue, though his hand was cold for battle.

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> The hoofs of horses, with a rattling sound,
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> Beat short and thick, and shake the rotten ground.

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> Mine is a heart that scorns the light, and believes that the glory that you strive for is cheaply bought with life.

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> How each man weaves
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> his web will bring him to glory or to grief.

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> Dying, he slew; and, staggering on the plain,
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> With swimming eyes he sought his lover slain;
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> Then quiet on his bleeding bosom fell,
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> Content, in death, to be revenged so well.

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> Hammer away with all your rhetoric.

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> Jupiter himself upholds two scales in even balance, and lays therein the diverse destinies of both, whom the strife dooms, and with whose weight death sinks down.

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> The picture of filial love touched his soul.

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> Thus all are ruled by one passion, to let the sword decide.

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> Do the gods, Euryalus, put this fire in our hearts, or does his own wild longing become to each man a god?

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> Why this shameful collapse before it all begins?
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> Why tremble so before the trumpet blares?

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> These are not gods who are pressing you so hard; they are mortals pursuing mortals.

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> Why drift I back so often? What madness turns my purpose?

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> O mind of man, knowing not fate or coming doom or how to keep bounds when uplifted with favoring fortune!

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> Turnus, what no god
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> Would dare to promise you—your heart's desire—
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> The course of time has of itself brought on.

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> Such hopes I had indeed, while Heaven was kind.

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> Camilla's dying hand pulled at the spear,
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> But the iron point was stuck deep in her ribs.
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> Drained of blood, she sank back; the chill light
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> Sank in her eyes; and her face, formerly
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> So radiant, turned pale in death.

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> Each is his own hope.

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> Many an ill has time repaired, and the shifting toil of changing years; many a man has Fortune, fitful visitant, mocked, then once more set up upon firm ground.

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> There shall come—do not hasten it—a lawful time for battle.

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> Hail forever, our great Pallas!
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> Hail forever and farewell!

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> Youths tall as their native pines and hills.

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> Our whole house is falling and you are its one support.

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> And dying, dreams of his sweet Argos.

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> In deep suspense the Trojan seemed to stand,
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> And, just prepared to strike, repressed his hand.
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> He rolled his eyes, and every moment felt
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> His manly soul with more compassion melt;
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> When, casting down a casual glance, he spied
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> The golden belt that glittered on his side,
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> The fatal spoils which haughty Turnus tore
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> From dying Pallas, and in triumph wore.
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> Then, roused anew to wrath, he loudly cries
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> (Flames, while he spoke, came flashing from his eyes)
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> "Traitor, dost thou, dost thou to grace pretend,
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> Clad, as thou art, in trophies of my friend?
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> To his sad soul a grateful offering go!
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> 'Tis Pallas, Pallas gives this deadly blow."
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> He raised his arm aloft, and, at the word,
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> Deep in his bosom drove the shining sword.

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> Within that single heart surges mighty shame, and madness mingled with grief, and love stung by fury, and the consciousness of worth.

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> Forever worthy of my great fathers' fame!

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> Me—here I am, I did it! Turn your blades on me,
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> Rutulians! The crime's all mine, he never dared,
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> could never do it! I swear by the skies up there,
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> the stars, they know it all! All he did was love
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> his unlucky friend too well!

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> We first bring our new-born sons to the river, and harden them with the water's cruel cold.

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> Let me first, I beg, give vent to this madness.

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> Don't let your corrosive grief
>
> devour you in silence.

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> Faith in the tale is old, but its fame is everlasting.

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> But go no further. I forbid you now.

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> Learn courage from me, my son, true hardship too.
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> Learn good luck from others.

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> In vain you have tried your slippery native tricks.

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> Supreme ruler of gods, pity, I beg,
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> The Arcadian king, and hear a father's prayer:
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> If by thy will my son survives, and fate
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> Spares him, and if I live to see him still,
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> To meet him yet again, I pray for life;
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> There is no trouble I cannot endure.
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> But, Fortune, if you threaten some black day,
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> Now, now let me break off my bitter life
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> While all's in doubt, while hope of what's to come
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> Remains uncertain, while I hold you here,
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> Dear boy, my late delight, my only one—
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> And may no graver message ever come
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> To wound my ears.

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> First, the sky and the earth and the flowing fields of the sea,
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> the shining orb of the moon and the Titan sun, the stars:
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> an inner spirit feeds them, coursing through all their limbs,
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> mind stirs the mass and their fusion brings the world to birth.

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> Thinking deeply, and pitying deep in his soul the injustice they suffer.

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> These gifts at least, these honours I'll bestow
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> On the dear youth, to please his shade below.

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> Here is our home, here is our fatherland.

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> And fired his soul with love of fame that was to be.

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> By length of time
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> The scurf is worn away of each committed crime;
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> No speck is left of their habitual stains,
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> But the pure ether of the soul remains.

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> Hapless Theseus sits and evermore shall sit.

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> Spirits they are, to whom second bodies are owed by Fate, and at the water of Lethe's stream they drink the soothing draught and long forgetfulness.

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> Fair golden tresses grace the comely train,
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> And every warrior wears a golden chain.
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> Embroider'd vests their snowy limbs infold;
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> And their rich robes are all adorn'd with gold.
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> Two Alpine spears with martial pride they wield,
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> And guard their bodies with an ample shield.

p. 34 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/fair-golden-tresses.md)

> Hence could be heard the angry growls of lions.

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> Here a whole crowd came streaming to the banks,
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> Mothers and men, the forms of life all spent
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> Of heroes great in valor, boys and girls
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> Unmarried, and young sons laid on the pyre
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> Before their parents' eyes.

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> Tragic Dido,
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> so, was the story true that came my way?
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> I heard that you were dead...
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> you took the final measure with a sword.
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> Oh, dear god, was it I who caused your death?
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> I swear by the stars, by the Powers on high, whatever
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> faith one swears by here in the depths of earth,
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> I left your shores, my Queen, against my will.

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> As when, in a bronze basin, the quivering water reflects
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> A sunbeam or the round of the radiant moon, a light
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> Goes glancing hither and thither, now shooting up from the water
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> And jigging upon the fretted ceiling over your head.

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> All these images on Vulcan's shield
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> His mother's gift, were wonders to Aeneas
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> Knowing nothing of the events themselves
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> He felt joy in their pictures, taking up
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> Upon his shoulder all the destined acts
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> And fame of his descendants.

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> All the rest, once they have turned the wheel of time
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> for a thousand years: God calls them forth to the Lethe,
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> great armies of souls, their memories blank so that
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> they may revisit the overarching world once more
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> and begin to long to return to bodies yet again.

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> Condemned to death on a false charge.

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> He, like an unmoved ocean cliff, resists.

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> In my hand I bear war and death.

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> Always collecting
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> new booty and glad to live off their stealing.

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> Remember Roman, these will be your arts:
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> to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer,
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> to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud.

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> Full in the midst of this infernal road,
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> An elm displays her dusky arms abroad;
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> The god of sleep there hides his heavy head
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> And empty dreams on every leaf are spread.

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> Yet love of country shall prevail, and boundless passion for renown.

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> This one sold his country for gold.

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> With galloping tramp the horse-hoof shakes the crumbling plain.

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> Never having trained her woman's hands to Minerva's distaff or basket of wool.

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> They came to a land of joy, the green pleasaunces and happy seats of the Blissful Groves.

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> Behold how Marcellus advances, graced with the spoils of the chief he slew, and towers triumphant over all!

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> And here are troops of men
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> who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country,
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> and those who had been pure priests while still alive,
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> and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus;
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> those who enriched our lives with the newfound arts they forged
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> and those we remember well for the good they did mankind.

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> Cease to dream that heaven's decrees may be turned aside by prayer.

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> Each of us must suffer his own demanding ghost.

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> Let men run war and peace: war is their work.

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> "Seek not to know," the ghost replied with tears,
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> "The sorrows of thy sons in future years.
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> This youth (the blissful vision of a day)
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> Shall just be shown on earth, and snatched away.
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> The gods too high had raised the Roman state:
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> Were but their gifts as permanent as great!
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> What groans of men shall fill the Martian field!
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> How fierce a blaze his flaming pile shall yield!
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> What funeral pomp shall floating Tiber see,
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> When, rising from his bed, he views the sad solemnity!
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> No youth shall equal hopes of glory give,
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> No youth afford so great a cause to grieve;
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> The Trojan honor, and the Roman boast,
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> Admired when living, and adored when lost!
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> Mirror of ancient faith in early youth!
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> Undaunted worth, inviolable truth!
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> No foe, unpunished, in the fighting field
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> Shall dare thee, foot to foot, with sword and shield;
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> Much less in arms oppose thy matchless force,
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> When thy sharp spurs shall urge thy foaming horse.
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> Ah! couldst thou break through fate's severe decree,
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> A new Marcellus shall arise in thee!"

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> About it hovered peoples and tribes unnumbered; even as when, in the meadows, in cloudless summertime, bees light on many-hued blossoms and stream round lustrous lilies and all the fields murmur with the humming.

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> Buried deep in sleep,
>
> peaceful, sweet, like the peace of death itself.

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> No, my boys, no! Don't accustom your spirits to wars of such huge scope,
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> Don't use your strength and your vigour to disembowel your country!

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> Lust of the sword rages in him, the accursed frenzy of war.

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> Now aged, but a god's old age is hardy and green.

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> Now I will set forth the glory that awaits
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> The Trojan race, the illustrious souls
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> Of the Italian heirs to our name.
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> I will teach you your destiny.

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> The fresh blood running red on Neptune's fields.

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> On they went, those dim travelers under the lonely night,
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> Through gloom and the empty halls of Death's ghostly realm,
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> like those who walk through woods by a grudging moon's
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> deceptive light.

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> A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever.

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> Alas! by what fates is he vexed! What wars, long endured, did he recount!

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> There lies my love, there lies my homeland now.

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> Few in number, but ardent for war.

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> Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.
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> She thrives on speed, stronger for every stride,
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> slight with fear at first, soon soaring into the air
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> she treads the ground and hides her head in the clouds.

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> Now hither, now thither he swiftly throws his mind.

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> His will stands unmoved. The falling tears are futile.

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> I shall be everywhere
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> A shade to haunt you!

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> Goddess born, whither the Fates, in their ebb and flow, draw us, let us follow; whatever befall, all fortune is to be o'ercome by bearing.

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> You gods, who hold the domain of spirits! You voiceless shades! You, Chaos, and you, Phlegethon, you broad, silent tracts of night! Suffer me to tell what I have heard; suffer me of your grace to unfold secrets buried in the depths and darkness of the earth!

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> Nowhere is trust safe.

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> A scream rises to the lofty roof.

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> More various colours through his body run,
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> Than Iris when her bow imbibes the sun.

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> The faith vowed to the ashes of Sychaeus I have not kept.

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> Arise from my ashes, unknown avenger!

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> The day is at hand which I shall keep (such, O gods, was your will) ever as a day of grief, ever as of honour.

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> He stands immovable by tears,
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> Nor tenderest words with pity hears.

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> Yield not to ills, but go forth all the bolder to face them as far as your destiny will allow!

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> Since Fortune's got the upper hand,
>
> let's follow her where she calls and change course.

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> Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.

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> She told no one what she saw, not even her sister.

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> Just let me offer a consolation prize to a luckless man, a friend without a fault.

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> Wars, horrendous wars,
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> and the Tiber foaming with tides of blood, I see it all!

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> Just before the entrance, even within the very jaws of Hell, Grief and avenging Cares have made their bed; there pale Diseases dwell, and sad Age, and Fear, and ill-counselling Famine, and loathly Want, shapes terrible to view; and Death and Distress; next, Death's own brother Sleep.

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> She calls it a marriage,
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> using the word to cloak her sense of guilt.

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> The fatal dart
>
> Sticks in her side, and rankles in her heart.

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> The partial crowd their hopes and fears divide,
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> And aid, with eager shouts, the favoured side.
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> Cries, murmurs, clamours, with a mixing sound,
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> From woods to woods, from hills to hills rebound.

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> Hug the shore... let others keep to the deep!

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> What dreams thrill me with fears?

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> More lovely virtue, in a lovely form.

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> She is weary of gazing on the arch of heaven.

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> Her torments multiply, over and over her passion
>
> surges back into heaving waves of rage.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/her-torments-multiply.md)

> You're running away—from me? Oh, I pray you
>
> by these tears, by the faith in your right hand—
>
> what else have I left myself in all my pain?—
>
> by our wedding vows, the marriage we began,
>
> if I deserve some decency from you now,
>
> if anything mine has ever won your heart,
>
> pity a great house about to fall, I pray you,
>
> if prayers have any place—reject this scheme of yours!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/youre-running-away-from.md)

> Do you think that dust or buried shades give heed to that?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/do-you-think.md)

> Had I not set my face against remarriage
>
> After my first love died and failed me, left me
>
> Barren and bereaved—and sick to death
>
> At the mere thought of torch and bridal bed—
>
> I could perhaps give way in this one case
>
> To frailty.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/had-i-not.md)

> Come all! See who takes the victory prize, the palm.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/come-all-see.md)

> You trusted—oh, Palinurus—
>
> far too much to a calm sky and sea.
>
> Your naked corpse will lie on an unknown shore.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/you-trusted-oh-palinurus.md)

> None of the trials you tell of, virgin,
>
> is strange or unexpected: all of these
>
> I have foreseen and journeyed in my thought.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/none-of-the.md)

> I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
>
> or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
>
> the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
>
> before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.
>
> He's carried my love away, the man who wed me first—
>
> may he hold it tight, safeguard it in his grave.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-pray-that.md)

> though my mind shudders to remember, and has recoiled in grief, I will begin.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/though-my-mind.md)

> I shake myself from sleep and, climbing to the roof's topmost height, stand with straining ears: even as, when fire falls on a cornfield while south winds are raging, or the rushing torrent from a mountain-stream lays low the fields, lays low the glad crops and labours of oxen and drags down forests headlong, spell-bound the bewildered shepherd hears the roar from a rock's lofty peak.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-shake-myself.md)

> With that
>
> and with all his might the old man flings his spear—
>
> but too impotent now to pierce, it merely grazes
>
> Pyrrhus' brazen shield that blocks its way
>
> and clings there, dangling limp from the boss,
>
> all for nothing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/with-that-and.md)

> Black night hovers around with sheltering shade.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/black-night-hovers.md)

> He lacks not much that lacks a grave.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/he-lacks-not.md)

> All praised the sentence, pleased the storm should fall
>
> On one alone, whose fury threatened all.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/all-praised-the.md)

> Hear now the treachery of the Greeks and from one learn the wickedness of all.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/hear-now-the.md)

> Purple light of youth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/purple-light-of-youth.md)

> Arms, my comrades,
>
> bring me arms! The last light calls the defeated.
>
> Send me back to the Greeks, let me go back
>
> to fight new battles. Not all of us here
>
> will die today without revenge.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/arms-my-comrades.md)

> May the gods—
>
> And surely there are powers that care for goodness,
>
> Surely somewhere justice counts—may they
>
> And your own consciousness of acting well
>
> Reward you as they should.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/may-the-gods.md)

> So come, dear father, climb up onto my shoulders!
>
> I will carry you on my back. This labor of love
>
> will never wear me down. Whatever falls to us now,
>
> we both will share one peril, one path to safety.
>
> Little Iulus, walk beside me, and you, my wife,
>
> follow me at a distance, in my footsteps.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/so-come-dear.md)

> The mad prophetic Sibyl you shall find,
>
> Dark in a cave, and on a rock reclined.
>
> She sings the fates, and, in her frantic fits,
>
> The notes and names inscribed, to leafs commits.
>
> What she commits to leafs, in order laid,
>
> Before the cavern's entrance are displayed:
>
> Unmoved they lie; but, if a blast of wind
>
> Without, or vapors issue from behind,
>
> The leafs are borne aloft in liquid air,
>
> And she resumes no more her museful care,
>
> Nor gathers from the rocks her scattered verse,
>
> Nor sets in order what the winds disperse.
>
> Thus, many not succeeding, most upbraid
>
> The madness of the visionary maid,
>
> And with loud curses leave the mystic shade.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-mad-prophetic.md)

> The queen, for her part, all that evening ached
>
> With longing that her heart's blood fed, a wound
>
> Or inward fire eating her away.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-queen-for.md)

> Sky on all sides and on all sides sea.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/sky-on-all.md)

> Think it not loss of time a while to stay,
>
> Though thy companions chide thy long delay;
>
> Though summoned to the seas, though pleasing gales
>
> Invite thy course, and stretch thy swelling sails:
>
> But beg the sacred priestess to relate
>
> With willing words, and not to write thy fate.
>
> The fierce Italian people she will show,
>
> And all thy wars, and all thy future woe,
>
> And what thou may'st avoid, and what must undergo.
>
> She shall direct thy course, instruct thy mind,
>
> And teach thee how the happy shores to find.
>
> This is what Heaven allows me to relate:
>
> Now part in peace; pursue thy better fate,
>
> And raise, by strength of arms, the Trojan state.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/think-it-not.md)

> Heartbreaking things I saw with my own eyes
>
> And was myself a part of.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/heartbreaking-things-i-saw.md)

> The wavering crowd is torn into opposing factions.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-wavering-crowd.md)

> All things were full of horror and affright,
>
> And dreadful even the silence of the night.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/all-things-were.md)

> Three times I tried to fling my arms around her neck,
>
> three times I embraced—nothing... her phantom
>
> sifting through my fingers,
>
> light as wind, quick as a dream in flight.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/three-times-i-tried.md)

> Some trickery lies hidden.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/some-trickery-lies.md)

> Sometimes the spark of generous fire
>
> Revives in vanquished hearts again.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/sometimes-the-spark.md)

> A monster awful, shapeless, huge, bereft of light.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/a-monster-awful.md)

> I was dismayed; my hair stood stiff, my voice held fast within my jaws.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-was-dismayed.md)

> Fortune favours our first effort.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/fortune-favours-our.md)

> Up to the sky an immense billow hoists us, then at once,
>
> as the wave sank down, down we plunge to the pit of hell.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/up-to-the.md)

> Meanwhile the sky revolves and night rushes from the ocean.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/meanwhile-the-sky.md)

> Hence would he sow dark rumours in the crowd.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/hence-would-he-sow.md)

> New clamors and new clangors now arise,
>
> The sound of trumpets mixed with fighting cries.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/new-clamors-and.md)

> To these tears we grant life and pity him besides.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/to-these-tears.md)

> Let us yield to Phoebus and at his warning pursue a better course.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/let-us-yield.md)

> Or had not men been fated to be blind.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/or-had-not.md)

> His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling—
>
> no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/his-looks-his.md)

> The while he lifts to heaven hideous cries, like the bellowings of a wounded bull that has fled from the altar and shaken from its neck the ill-aimed axe.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-while-he-lifts.md)

> His sole pleasure, his only solace in pain...

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/his-sole-pleasure.md)

> Everywhere, wrenching grief, everywhere, terror
>
> and a thousand shapes of death.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/everywhere-wrenching-grief.md)

> Rage and wrath drive my soul headlong and I think how glorious it is to die in arms!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/rage-and-wrath.md)

> How changed he was from that Hector who returns after donning the spoils of Achilles.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/how-changed-he-was.md)

> Call it cunning or courage; who would ask in war?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/call-it-cunning.md)

> O gods, take such a pest away from earth!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/o-gods-take.md)

> Even his children's children and their race that shall be born of them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/even-his-childrens.md)

> So I resigned myself, picked up my father,
>
> And turned my face toward the mountain range.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/so-i-resigned.md)

> Alas, it is wrong for man to rely on the gods for anything against their will!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/alas-it-is-wrong.md)

> He follows his father, but not with equal steps.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/he-follows-his.md)

> It was the hour when for weary mortals their first rest begins, and by grace of the gods steals over them most sweet.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/it-was-the.md)

> Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won!
>
> But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/live-on-in-your.md)

> I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-dragged-on-my-ruined.md)

> If you have no use for humankind and mortal armor,
>
> at least respect the gods. They know right from wrong.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/if-you-have.md)

> What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

p. 161 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/what-region-of-the.md)

> If only Jupiter would give me back
>
> The past years and the man I was...

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/if-only-jupiter.md)

> Many blows he took on land and sea from the gods above—
>
> thanks to cruel Juno's relentless rage—and many losses
>
> he bore in battle too, before he could found a city,
>
> bring his gods to Latium, source of the Latin race,
>
> the Alban lords and the high walls of Rome.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/many-blows-he-took.md)

> Jove almighty,
>
> nod assent to the daring work I have in hand!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/jove-almighty-nod.md)

> Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/blessings-on-your.md)

> I am Aeneas, duty-bound, and known
>
> Above high air of heaven by my fame,
>
> Carrying with me in my ships our gods
>
> Of hearth and home, saved from the enemy.
>
> I look for Italy to be my fatherland,
>
> And my descent is from all-highest Jove.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-am-aeneas.md)

> What race of men is this? What land is so barbarous as to allow this custom?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/what-race-of-men.md)

> He said; and feeds his hungry heart
>
> With shapes of unsubstantial art.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/he-said-and.md)

> Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
>
> Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/learn-fortitude-and.md)

> Nursing an undying wound deep in her heart.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/nursing-an-undying.md)

> Through various hazards and events we move.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/through-various-hazards.md)

> Unrolling the scroll of fate.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/unrolling-the-scroll.md)

> How fortunate, both at once!
>
> If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn
>
> that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while
>
> the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken,
>
> not while the Roman Father rules the world.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/how-fortunate-both.md)

> Her bright eyes brimming with tears.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/her-bright-eyes.md)

> Who knows?
>
> Better times may come to those in pain.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/who-knows-better.md)

> She bears a quiver on her shoulder, and as she treads overtops all the goddesses.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/she-bears-a-quiver.md)

> So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,
>
> He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly
>
> Contained his anguish.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/so-ran-the.md)

> And with a groan for that indignity
>
> His spirit fled into the gloom below.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/and-with-a-groan.md)

> Fate will find a way.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/fate-will-find.md)

> The attempts to heal enflame the fever more.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-attempts-to-heal.md)

> Do the gods light this fire in our hearts
>
> or does each man's mad desire become his god?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/do-the-gods.md)

> Fortune favors the bold.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/fortune-favors-the.md)

> Tell me, Muse, the causes of her anger. How did he violate the will of the Queen of the Gods? What was his offence? Why did she drive a man famous for his piety to such endless hardship and such suffering? Can there be so much anger in the hearts of the heavenly gods?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/tell-me-muse.md)

> For these I set no limits, world or time,
>
> But make the gift of empire without end.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/for-these-i-set.md)

> Nor yet had the causes of her wrath, nor her hot resentment, faded from her soul. Deep-written in her heart the judgement of Paris remained, and the outrage to her slighted beauty.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/nor-yet-had.md)

> Go no further down the road of hatred.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/go-no-further.md)

> Severe conditions and the kingdom's youth
>
> Constrain me to these measures, to protect
>
> Our long frontiers with guards.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/severe-conditions-and.md)

> There is no salvation in war.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/there-is-no-salvation.md)

> Thus to their toils, in early summer, run
>
> The clust'ring bees, and labour in the sun;
>
> Led forth, in colonies, their buzzing race,
>
> Or work the liquid sweets, and thicken to a mass.
>
> The busy nation flies from flow'r to flow'r,
>
> And hoards, in curious cells, the golden store;
>
> A chosen troop before the gate attends,
>
> To take the burdens, and relieve their friends;
>
> Warm at the fragrant work, in bands, they drive
>
> The drone, a lazy robber, from the hive.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/thus-to-their.md)

> Euryalus
>
> In death went reeling down,
>
> And blood streamed on his handsome length, his neck
>
> Collapsing let his head fall on his shoulder—
>
> As a bright flower cut by a passing plow
>
> Will droop and wither slowly, or a poppy
>
> Bow its head upon its tired stalk
>
> When overborne by a passing rain.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/euryalus-in-death.md)

> Loyal Achates bore the weapons.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/loyal-achates-bore.md)

> Is it then so sad a thing to die?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/is-it-then.md)

> Rage finds them arms.
>
> But then, if they chance to see a man among them,
>
> whose devotion and public service lend him weight,
>
> they stand there, stock-still with their ears alert as
>
> he rules their furor with his words and calms their passion.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/rage-finds-them.md)

> I sing of arms and of a man: his fate
>
> had made him fugitive; he was the first
>
> to journey from the coasts of Troy as far
>
> as Italy and the Lavinian shores.

p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-sing-of-arms-and.md)

> Every man's last day is fixed.
>
> Lifetimes are brief and not to be regained,
>
> For all mankind. But by their deeds to make
>
> Their fame last: that is labor for the brave.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/every-mans-last.md)

> Trojan and Tyrian I shall treat with no distinction.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/trojan-and-tyrian.md)

> I cannot bear a mother's tears.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-cannot-bear.md)

> Each one his own hope.

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> She spoke, and as she turned away, her roseate neck flashed bright. From her head her ambrosial tresses breathed celestial fragrance; down to her feet fell her raiment, and in her step she was revealed a very goddess.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/she-spoke-and.md)

> An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/an-awful-misshapen.md)

> Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/fear-is-the.md)

> There are twin Gates of Sleep.
>
> One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn
>
> and it offers easy passage to all true shades.
>
> The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless,
>
> but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/there-are-twin.md)

> Each of us bears his own Hell.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/each-of-us-bears.md)

> Now, Aeneas, is the hour for courage, now for a dauntless heart!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/now-aeneas-is-the.md)

> Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods!

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/be-warned-learn.md)

> Fickle and changeable always is woman.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/fickle-and-changeable.md)

> Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/yield-not-to-misfortunes.md)

> Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/cease-to-think.md)

> I feel once more the scars of the old flame.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/i-feel-once.md)

> It is come—the last day and inevitable hour for Troy.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/it-is-come-the.md)

> A greater history opens before my eyes,
>
> A greater task awaits me.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/a-greater-history.md)

> Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
>
> Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/do-not-trust.md)

> There all stood begging to be first across
>
> And reached out longing hands to the far shore.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/there-all-stood.md)

> They can because they think they can.

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> Prepared for either alternative.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/prepared-for-either.md)

> Wrapping truth in darkness.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/wrapping-truth-in-darkness.md)

> Let someone arise from my bones as an Avenger.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/let-someone-arise.md)

> 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.

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> The gates of hell are open night and day;
>
> Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
>
> But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
>
> In this the task and mighty labor lies.

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> I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen,
>
> never regret my memories of Dido, not while I
>
> can recall myself and draw the breath of life.

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> Nay, had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime, or rehearse all the tale of torments.

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> What a woman can do in frenzy.

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> How changed from what he once was!

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> Fear gave wings to his feet.

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> I wait with listening ears.

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> Obscure they went through dreary shades, that led
>
> Along the waste dominions of the dead.

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> Give lilies with full hands.

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> I have lived
>
> and journeyed through the course assigned by fortune.
>
> And now my Shade will pass, illustrious,
>
> beneath the earth.

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> Amid the friendly silence of the peaceful moon.

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> They who bettered life on earth by new-found mastery.

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> Who could tell such things and still refrain from tears?

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> This man sold his country for gold.

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> "I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
>
> she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below
>
> to shadows."

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> Sorrow too deep to tell, your majesty,
>
> You order me to feel and tell once more.

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> I sail for Italy not of my own free will.

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> The only hope for the doomed is no hope at all.

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> Ye realms, yet unrevealed to human sight,
>
> Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,
>
> Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
>
> The mystic wonders of your silent state!

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> Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.

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> Can such resentment hold the minds of gods?

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> I sing of arms and a man.

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> Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.

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> No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.

p. 793 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/no-stranger-to-trouble.md)

> Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

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> Even here, merit will have its true reward...
>
> even here, the world is a world of tears
>
> and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/even-here-merit.md)

> So hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.

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> Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
>
> Will be a pleasure.

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> Friends and companions,
>
> Have we not known hard hours before this?
>
> My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
>
> God will grant us an end to these as well.

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> Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.

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> The leader of the enterprise a woman.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-leader-of-the.md)

> Following what is decreed by fate.

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> Aeneid, trans. Frederick Ahl (Oxford World's Classics, 2008),

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> Vivendo vici mea fata.

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> The Aeneid, trans. John Dryden (1697)

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> Ne qua meis esto dictis mora.

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> Virgil: Aeneid VII–XXI, The Minor Poems, trans. H. R. Fairclough (W. Heinemann, 1918)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/virgil-aeneid-vii-xxi.md)

> The Aeneid, trans. Cecil Day Lewis (Oxford University Press, 1986),

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-aeneid-trans-cecil.md)

> Audentis fortuna iuvat.

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> The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fitzgerald (Random House, 1983),

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-aeneid-trans-robert.md)

> The Aeneid, trans. David West (Penguin Classics, 1995),

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-aeneid-trans-david.md)

> Aeneid, trans. Stanley Lombardo (Hackett Publishing, 2005),

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> The Æneids of Virgil, trans. William Morris (1876)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-aeneids-of-virgil.md)

> Sit Romana potens Itala virtute propago.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/sit-romana-potens.md)

> The Aeneid of Virgil, trans. Allen Mandelbaum (Random House, 2003),

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-aeneid-of-virgil-trans-allen.md)

> Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I–VI, trans. H. R. Fairclough (W. Heinemann, 1918)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/virgil-eclogues-georgics.md)

> Vergil's Aeneid, trans. Levi Robert Lind (Indiana University Press, 1963),

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/vergils-aeneid-trans.md)

> Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur .

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> Nunc ipsa vocat res.
>
> Hac iter est.

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> The Æneid of Virgil, trans. John Conington (1870)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-aeneid-of-virgil-trans.md)

> The Aeneid of Virgil, trans. John William Mackail (Macmillan, 1920)

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> The Æneid of Virgil, trans. Christopher Pitt (1740)

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> The Aeneid, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 2006),

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/the-aeneid-trans-robert-fagles.md)

> Primo avulso non deficit alter.

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> Mitte hanc de pectore curam.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/mitte-hanc-de-pectore.md)

> Vocat in certamina divos.

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> Hic locus est, partes ubi se via findit in ambas.

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> Pacemne huc fertis an arma?

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> Nec tibi diva parens.

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> Pendent opera interrupta.

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> Nec famam obstare furori.

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> Campos ubi Troja fuit.

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> Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

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> Impar congressus Achilli.

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> Longa est injuria, longae
>
> ambages.

p. 86 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/longa-est-injuria.md)

> Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

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> Mens sibi conscia recti.

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> Bella, horrida bella.

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> Consanguineus Leti Sopor.

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> Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.

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> Procul, O procul este, profani!

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> Furor arma ministrat.

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> Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
>
> Auri sacra fames?

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> Quis fallere possit amantem?

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> O terque quaterque beati!

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> Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!

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