Virgil
Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 October 70
love-conquers-all conquer submit
Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.
fate mind causes
Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.
bears hell
Each of us bears his own Hell.
fate journey men
I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.
greek
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts,
snakes grass
There's a snake hidden in the grass.
hours sweetest
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
moving heaven hell
If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
blood want pluck
Want of pluck shows want of blood
too-much appearance
Trust not too much to appearances
crowns
A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.
philosophical safety
Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
math numbers delight
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
joy suffering may
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.