# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

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

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Sicut aquae tremulum labris ubi lumen aenis / sole repercussum aut radiantis imagine lunae / omnia pervolitat late loca, iamque sub auras / erigitur summique ferit laquearia tecti.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_VIII) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/as-when-in-a-bronze

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> 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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