# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> 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.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Si mihi non animo fixum immotumque sederet / Ne cui me vinclo vellem sociare iugali, / Postquam primus amor deceptam morte fefellit; / Si non pertaesum thalami taedaeque fuisset, / Huic uni forsan potui succumbere culpae.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_IV) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/had-i-not

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