Maro Publius Vergilius: Citáty anglicky (strana 7)

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“Fear gave wings to his feet.”
Pedibus timor addidit alas.

Virgil Aeneid

Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIII, Line 224 (tr. C. Day Lewis)

“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 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 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 Aeneid

Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 1

“Wonderful to tell.”
Mirabile dictu.

Virgil Aeneid

Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 439

“The attempts to heal enflame the fever more.”
Aegrescitque medendo.

Virgil 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 Aeneid

Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 33 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

“Data fata secutus.”

Virgil Aeneid

Following what is decreed by fate.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 382

“Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.”

Virgil Aeneid

Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 118 (tr. Fairclough)

“Yield to God.”

Virgil Aeneid

Cede Deo.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 467

“Hug the shore.”

Virgil Aeneid

(la) Litus ama.
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 163 (tr. Fairclough)

“A snake lurks in the grass.”

Virgil kniha Eclogues

(la) Latet anguis in herba.
Book III, line 93
Eclogues (37 BC)