And here are troops of men who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country, and those who had been… — Virgil

And here are troops of men

who had suffered wounds, fighting to save their country,

and those who had been pure priests while still alive,

and the faithful poets whose songs were fit for Phoebus;

those who enriched our lives with the newfound arts they forged

and those we remember well for the good they did mankind.

In the original (Latin)

Hic manus, ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi,

Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat,

Quique pii vates, et Phoebo digna locuti,

Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes,

Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.

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