„Who knows?
Better times may come to those in pain.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 153 (tr. Fagles)
Frases Virgilio
„Who knows?
„Each of us bears his own Hell.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) Quisque suos patimur manis.
Variante: Each one his own hope.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 743
„Fate withstands.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (ca) Fata obstant.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 440 (tr. Fairclough)
„Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil“
— Virgil, Geórgicas
Book I, lines 145–146 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough).
Compare: Labor omnia vincit ("Work conquers all"), the state motto of Oklahoma.
Georgics (29 BC)
Original: (la) Labor omnia vicit<!--uicit-->
improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas.
Contexto: Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.
„Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.“
— Virgil, Bucólicas
The Eclogues
Eclogues (37 BC)
Original: (la) Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.
Variante: Love conquers all; let us, too, yield to Love!
„Prepared for either alternative.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) In utrumque paratus.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 61
„An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, Line 658 (tr. Mandelbaum); of Polyphemus.
„I sang of pastures, farms, and commanders.“
— Virgil
Inscription on Virgil's tomb in Naples (tr. Bernard Knox).
Attributed
Original: (la) Cecini pascua, rura, duces.
„I will teach you your destiny.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Te tua fata docebo.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 759 (tr. Stanley Lombardo)
„Fickle and changeable always is woman.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) Varium et mutabile semper
Femina.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 569–570
„Who could tell such things and still refrain from tears?“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) Quis talia fando
Temperet a lacrimis?
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 6 and 8 (tr. Fagles)
„Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 609 (tr. Fagles); Aeneas to Dido.
„I feel once more the scars of the old flame.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 23 (tr. C. Day Lewis); Dido acknowledging her love for Aeneas.
„So strong is habit in tender years.“
— Virgil, Geórgicas
Book II, line 272 (tr. Fairclough)
Compare: "Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." Alexander Pope, Moral Essays: Epistle I (1734), line 150.
Georgics (29 BC)
Original: (la) Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.
„Fortune favors the bold.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Audentes fortuna iuvat.
Variant translations:
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune helps the daring.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Compare:
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
Fortune is given to brave men.
Ennius, Annales, 257
Original: (la) Audentes<!--Audentis?--> fortuna iuvat.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book X, Line 284
„Rage supplies arms.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (sq) Furor arma ministrat.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 150
„How lucky, if they know their happiness,
Are farmers, more than lucky, they for whom,
Far from the clash of arms, the earth herself,
Most fair in dealing, freely lavishes
An easy livelihood.“
— Virgil, Geórgicas
Book II, lines 458–460 (tr. L. P. Wilkinson)
Georgics (29 BC)
Original: (la) O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint
Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis,
Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus!
„Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.“
— Virgil, Eneida
Original: (la) Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum.
Fuente: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 174 (tr. Robert Fagles)
„In those days I, Virgil, was nursed of sweet Parthenope, and rejoiced in the arts of inglorious ease.“
— Virgil, Geórgicas
Book IV, lines 563–564 (tr. Fairclough)
Georgics (29 BC)
Original: (la) Illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat
Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti.
„What madness has seized you?“
— Virgil, Bucólicas
Book II, line 69
Eclogues (37 BC)
Original: (la) Quae te dementia cepit!
