“Fear gave wings to his feet.”
Pedibus timor addidit alas.
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIII, Line 224 (tr. C. Day Lewis)
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“Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.”
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
Virgil Georgics
Book II, line 490 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough); homage to Lucretius.
John Dryden's translation:
: Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws,
Thro' known effects can trace the secret cause.
Georgics (29 BC)
“Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.”
Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis
paulatim.
Virgil Georgics
Book I, lines 133–134
Georgics (29 BC)
“A greater history opens before my eyes,
A greater task awaits me.”
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo;
Majus opus moveo.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VII, Lines 44–45 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
“Begin, baby boy, to recognize your mother with a smile.”
Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem.
Virgil kniha Eclogues
Book IV, line 60 (tr. Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)
“The gods thought otherwise.”
Dis<!--Diis?--> aliter visum.
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Dis aliter visum.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 428
“Above all, worship the gods.”
In primis venerare Deos.
Virgil Georgics
Book I, line 338 (tr. Fairclough)
Georgics (29 BC)
“I sing of arms and a man.”
Arma virumque cano.
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 1
“The attempts to heal enflame the fever more.”
Aegrescitque medendo.
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 46 (tr. Fagles)
“So hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.”
Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem!
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 33 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Following what is decreed by fate.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 382
“Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.”
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 118 (tr. Fairclough)
Virgil kniha Aeneid
Cede Deo.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 467
Virgil kniha Aeneid
(la) Litus ama.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 163 (tr. Fairclough)
Virgil kniha Eclogues
(la) Latet anguis in herba.
Book III, line 93
Eclogues (37 BC)