# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> Think it not loss of time a while to stay,
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> Though thy companions chide thy long delay;
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> Though summoned to the seas, though pleasing gales
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> Invite thy course, and stretch thy swelling sails:
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> But beg the sacred priestess to relate
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> With willing words, and not to write thy fate.
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> The fierce Italian people she will show,
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> And all thy wars, and all thy future woe,
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> And what thou may'st avoid, and what must undergo.
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> She shall direct thy course, instruct thy mind,
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> And teach thee how the happy shores to find.
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> This is what Heaven allows me to relate:
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> Now part in peace; pursue thy better fate,
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> And raise, by strength of arms, the Trojan state.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Hic tibi ne qua morae fuerint dispendia tanti, / Quamvis increpitent socii et vi cursus in altum / Vela vocet, possisque sinus implere secundos, / Quin adeas vatem precibusque oracula poscas / Ipsa canat vocemque volens atque ora resolvat. / Illa tibi Italiae populos venturaque bella / Et quo quemque modo fugiasque ferasque laborem / Expediet, cursusque dabit venerata secundos. / Haec sunt quae nostra liceat te voce moneri. / Vade age, et ingentem factis fer ad aethera Troiam.
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/think-it-not

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