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.
— Virgil Ancient

Aeneid

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Aeneid, Book VI, lines 847-853

Date / Period

~29-19 BC

Category

Controversial

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2268/2268-h/2268-h.htm

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