# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> So come, dear father, climb up onto my shoulders!
>
> I will carry you on my back. This labor of love
>
> will never wear me down. Whatever falls to us now,
>
> we both will share one peril, one path to safety.
>
> Little Iulus, walk beside me, and you, my wife,
>
> follow me at a distance, in my footsteps.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Ergo age, care pater, cervici imponere nostrae; / Ipse subibo umeris nec me labor iste gravabit; / Quo res cumque cadent, unum et commune periclum, / Una salus ambobus erit. Mihi parvus Iulus / Sit comes, et longe servet vestigia coniunx.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_II) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/so-come-dear

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