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
english-poet time
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
endurance endure happier-times
Endure and save yourselves for happier times.
time bears all-things
Time bears away all things.
philosophical time-flies
Time flies never to be recalled.
philosophical time-passes
Time passes irrevocably.
third three time tried whether
Try a thing you haven't tried before three times - once to get over the fear, once to find out how to do it, and a third time to find out whether you like it or not
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.
against attack beaten endures exposed fury hate man rock sea shower vast winds
They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.
They are able because they think they are able.
english-poet man
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.