# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

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

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento / (Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_VI) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/remember-roman-these

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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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