# Quote — Virgil, The Eclogues

> What madness has seized you?

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Eclogues](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-eclogues.md)
- Original (la): Quae te dementia cepit!
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virgil#Eclogues_(37_BC)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-eclogues/what-madness-has

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> But I discern their flattery from their praise.

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> The mountain-tops unshorn, the rocks rejoice;
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