Quotations: Vergil Flashcards
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentīs
Vigil - I fear Greeks even (those) bearing gifts
Dux femina factī
Vigil - A woman (was the) leader of the deed
Possunt quia posse videntur
Vigil - They are able because they seem to be able
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
Vigil - Perhaps at some time it will help to remember even these things
Labor omnia vincit
Vigil - Work overcomes all
Dum spiro, spero
Vigil - While I breathe, I hope
Fama volat
Vigil - Rumor flies
Fugit irreparabile tempus
Vigil - Time flies irretrievable
Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amorī
Vigil - Love conquers all and let us yield to love
Aspirat primo fortuna labori
Vigil - Fortune smiles upon a first attempt
Dis aliter visum
Vigil - It seemed otherwise to the gods
Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem
Vigil - Of such a great effort it was to found the Roman race
Ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito
Vigil - Do not yield to evil but go more boldly against it
Imperium sine fine dedi
Vigil - I have given power without end
Amor omnia vincit
Vigil - Love conquers all
Anguis in Herba
Vigil - A snake in the grass (a hidden danger)
Arma virumque cano
Vigil - I sing of weapons and a man (first words of the Aeneid)
Audentis fortuna iuvat
Vigil - Fortune favors the bold
Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebat
Vigil - All were silent and listened to him
Dextrum Scylla latus, Laevum implacata Charybdis
Vigil - Scylla is on the right, and unappeasable Charybdis on the left
Dis aliter Visum
Vigil - It was seen otherwise by the gods
Facilis descensus Averno
Vigil - Easy is the descent to Avernus
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Vigil - Happy is the one who was able to learn the causes of things
Fervet opus
Vigil - The place hums with activity
Fidus Achates
Vigil - Faithful Achates
Furor arma ministrat
Vigil - Fury gives power to weopons
Illium Fuit
Vigil - Troy was (and is no more)
Infandum regina iubes renovare dolorem
Vigil - Too deep for words, O queen, lies the sorrow that you ask me to renew
Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope Cecini Pascua, rura, duces.
Vigil - Mantua bore
me; the calabrians captivated me; now Naples holds me. I sang of flocks. Fields and leaders.
Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco
Vigil - Not ignorant of evil, I learn to aid the unfortunate
Non passibus aequis
Vigil - With unequal steps
Nunc scio quid sit amor
Vigil - Now I know what love is
O lux Dardanidae, spes o fidissima teucrum
Vigil - O light of the family of Dardanus, o most faithful hope of the family of Teucer
O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem
Vigil - O you who have endured heavier things, the god will
grant an end to those things too
Romanos, Rerum dominos, gentemque togatam
Vigil - The romans, masters of all things, the toga clad race
Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
Vigil - Even here the woes of man touch the heart of man
Tempus Fugit
Vigil - Time flies
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
Vigil - I fear the Greeks and the gifts they bring
Tu regere imperio populous Romane memento (hae tibi erunt artes) pacique imponere morem, parcere
subiectis et debeellare superbos.
Vigil - Roman no, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be
your arts), to impose a habit of peace, to spare those who are conquered and war down those who are
arrogant
Ultima thule
Vigil - Farthest Thule (to the romans , the most distant place
known
Varium et mutabile semper femina
Vigil - A woman is an ever changing and fickle thing
