# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> 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.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, / Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo, / Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum / Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virgil#Book_IX) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/how-fortunate-both

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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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