Quotes from Virgil

Mutandae sedes:  non haec tibi litora suasit Delius, aut Cretae iussit considere Apollo. Est locus, Hesperiam Grai cognomine dicunt, terra antiqua, potens armis atque ubere glaebae;

Talibus insidiis periurique arte Sinonis credita res, captique dolis lacrimisque coactis, quos neque Tydides, nec Larisaeus Achilles, non anni domuere decem, non mille carinae.

The one safety for the defeated is to have no hope of safety

Surge age, et haec laetus longaevo dicta parenti haud dubitanda refer:  Corythum terrasque requirat Ausonias; Dictaea negat tibi Iuppiter arva.

Now when these souls have trodden the full circle of a thousand years, God call's all of them forth in long procession to the Lethe River, and this he does so that when they again visit the sky's vault they may be without memory, and a wish to re-enter bodily life may dawn.

Latet arbore opaca aureus et foliis et lento vimine ramus

But you, Roman, must remember that you have to guide the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to graft tradition onto peace, to shew mercy to the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

do the gods light this fire in our hearts 220 or does each man's mad desire become his god?

Atina potens Tiburque superbum, Ardea Crustumerique et turrigerae Antemnae.

hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos.

What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love?

At sociis subita gelidus formidine sanguis deriguit;

Sum patria ex Ithaca, comes infelicis Ulixi, nomine Achaemenides, Troiam genitore Adamasto paupere---mansissetque utinam fortuna!---profectus. Hic me, dum trepidi crudelia limina linquunt, inmemores socii vasto Cyclopis in antro deseruere.

Umbrarum hic locus est, somni noctisque soporae; corpora viva nefas Stygia vectare carina.

Fortune favors those who dare.

1.--ARMA virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram; multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.

It is for men to make wage war and make peace; for that task is theirs.

Obstipuit, retroque pedem cum voce repressit: inprovisum aspris veluti qui sentibus anguem pressit humi nitens, trepidusque repente refugit attollentem iras et caerula colla tumentem; haud secus Androgeos visu tremefactus abibat.

Illa dolos dirumque nefas in pectore versat, certa mori, varioque irarum fluctuat aestu.

Furens quid femina possit

Arma virumque canto.

Et pater Anchises passis de litore palmis numina magna vocat, meritosque indicit honores: 'Di, prohibete minas; di, talem avertite casum, et placidi servate pios!

Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso, quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae? New vocabulary:

Non fugis hinc praeceps, dum praecipitare potestas? Iam mare turbari trabibus, saevasque videbis conlucere faces, iam fervere litora flammis, si te his attigerit terris Aurora morantem.