Share this page: Arma virumque cano. ( I sing of arms and a man.) -- Aeneid, Book I, Line 1 Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. (Perhaps some day even these things will be pleasant to remember.) -- Aeneid, Book 1 Dixit et advertens rosea cervice refulsit, Ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem Spiravere; pedes vestis defluxit ad imos, Et vera incessu partuit dea. (Thus she spoke and turned away with a flash of her rosy neck, and her ambrosial hair exhaled a divine fragrance; her dress flowed right down to her feet and her true godhead was evident from her walk. -- Aeneid, Book 1 Sunt lacrimae rerum. (Events have tears.) -- Aeneid, Book 1 Mens sibi conscia recti. (A mind conscious of the right.) -- Aeneid, Book 1 Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis. (Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.) -- Aeneid, Book 2 Horresco referens. (I shudder as I recall it.) -- Aeneid, Book 2 Tacitae per amica silentia lunae. (Through the friendly silence of the soundless moonlight.) -- Aeneid, Book 2 Dis allter visum. (The gods thought otherwise. Also translated as: Heaven thought otherwise. ) -- Aeneid, Book 2 Bella, horrida bella, Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. (I see wars, horrible wars, and the Tiber foaming with much blood.) -- Aeneid, Book 6 Facilis descensus Averni: Noctes atque dies patet atri lanua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. (The way to Hell is easy: night and day the gates of black Dis stand open; but to retrace the step and reach the breezes above, this is the task, and in it the labour.) -- Aeneid, Book 6 Procul, o procul este, profani. (Far off, oh keep far off, you unitiated ones.) Let all profane ones be.) -- Aeneid, Book 6 Nox ruit et fuscit tellurem amplectitur alis. (Night came down, and enfolded the earth in her dusky wings.) -- Aeneid, Book 6 Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra. (Good luck to your young ambition, boy, that is the way to the stars.) -- Aeneid, Book 9 Audentes fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold. Often quoted as: Fortune favours the brave.) -- Aeneid, Book 10 Ac velut in somnis, oculos ubi languida pressit Nocte Quies, nequiquam avidos extendere cursus Velle videmur et in mediis conatibus aegri Succidmus; non lingua valet, non corpore notae Sufficiunt vires nec vox nec verba sequuntur: Sic Turno. (But, as in a nightmare, when sleep's narcotic hand Is leaden on our eyes, we seem to be desperately trying To run and run, but we cannot -- for all our efforts, we sink down Nerveless, our usual strength is just not there, and our tongue Won't work at all -- we can't utter a word or produce one sound: So with Turnus.) -- Aeneid, Book 12 (C. Day Lewis, tr.) Latet anguis in herba. (A snake is hidden in the grass.) -- Eclogues, 3 Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem. (Begin, baby boy, to recognise your baby mother with a smile.) -- Eclogues, 4 Incipe, parve puer: qui non risere parenti, Nec deus hunc mensa, dea nex dignata cubili est. (Begin, baby boy: if you haven't had a smile for your parent, then neiher will a god think you worth inviting to dinner, nor a goddess to bed.) -- Eclogues, 4 Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori. (Love conquers all: and we give in to love.) -- Eclogues, 10 Labor omnia vincit. (Work conquers all.) -- Georgics, 1 Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus. (Time meanwhile flies, flies never to return) Usually quoted as: Tempus fugit [Time flies] -- Georgics, 2 Hi motus animorum atque haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui iactu compressa quiescent. (These soul-stirrings and great conflicts are contained and quelled by throwing a little dust.) -- Georgics, 4 Share this page:

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