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
men desire every-man
Every man makes a god of his own desire
men arms firsts
Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.
wisdom men
Each man is led by his own liking.
latin philosophical men
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
philosophical men ruins
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
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.
pain men suffering
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
loyalty men motive
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
men accepted should
A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.
future perhaps prove source
Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
conquers english-poet love surrender
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
course death descend fortune run shade shall
I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.
beauty enchanting trust
Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
dragged favorite pleasure
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.