Virgil

Aeneid

Ancient influential 137 sayings

Sayings by Virgil

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, lines 1-3
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Dabit Deus his quoque finem.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, line 199
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Quisque suos patimur Manes.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book VI, line 743
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Discite iustitiam moniti et non temnere divos.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book VI, line 620
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Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, line 207
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Mens agitat molem et magno se corpore miscet.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book VI, line 727
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Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, line 630
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Optima dies... prima fugit.

~29 BC — Georgics, Book III, line 66
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Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book I, line 33
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Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book II, line 354
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Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera (credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book VI, lines 847-853
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Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore.

~29 BC — Georgics, Book III, lines 284-285
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Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book IX, line 447
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Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.

~29 BC — Georgics, Book II, line 490
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Pius Aeneas.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, frequently used epithet
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Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, labuntur anni.

— Often misattributed to Horace, but the sentiment is similar to Virgil's themes of fleeting time.
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Horresco referens.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book II, line 204
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Non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis tempus eget.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book II, line 521
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Solaque in sicca morte reliquit arena.

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book IV, line 680
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Dolus an virtus quis in hoste requirat?

~29-19 BC — Aeneid, Book II, line 390
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