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Quotations: Vergil Flashcards

1
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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentīs

A

Vigil - I fear Greeks even (those) bearing gifts

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2
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Dux femina factī

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Vigil - A woman (was the) leader of the deed

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3
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Possunt quia posse videntur

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Vigil - They are able because they seem to be able

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4
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Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

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Vigil - Perhaps at some time it will help to remember even these things

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5
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Labor omnia vincit

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Vigil - Work overcomes all

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6
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Dum spiro, spero

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Vigil - While I breathe, I hope

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7
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Fama volat

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Vigil - Rumor flies

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Fugit irreparabile tempus

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Vigil - Time flies irretrievable

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Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amorī

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Vigil - Love conquers all and let us yield to love

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10
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Aspirat primo fortuna labori

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Vigil - Fortune smiles upon a first attempt

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11
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Dis aliter visum

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Vigil - It seemed otherwise to the gods

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12
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Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem

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Vigil - Of such a great effort it was to found the Roman race

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13
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Ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito

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Vigil - Do not yield to evil but go more boldly against it

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14
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Imperium sine fine dedi

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Vigil - I have given power without end

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15
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Amor omnia vincit

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Vigil - Love conquers all

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16
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Anguis in Herba

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Vigil - A snake in the grass (a hidden danger)

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17
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Arma virumque cano

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Vigil - I sing of weapons and a man (first words of the Aeneid)

18
Q

Audentis fortuna iuvat

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Vigil - Fortune favors the bold

19
Q

Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebat

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Vigil - All were silent and listened to him

20
Q

Dextrum Scylla latus, Laevum implacata Charybdis

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Vigil - Scylla is on the right, and unappeasable Charybdis on the left

21
Q

Dis aliter Visum

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Vigil - It was seen otherwise by the gods

22
Q

Facilis descensus Averno

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Vigil - Easy is the descent to Avernus

23
Q

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

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Vigil - Happy is the one who was able to learn the causes of things

24
Q

Fervet opus

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Vigil - The place hums with activity

25
Q

Fidus Achates

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Vigil - Faithful Achates

26
Q

Furor arma ministrat

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Vigil - Fury gives power to weopons

27
Q

Illium Fuit

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Vigil - Troy was (and is no more)

28
Q

Infandum regina iubes renovare dolorem

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Vigil - Too deep for words, O queen, lies the sorrow that you ask me to renew

29
Q

Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope Cecini Pascua, rura, duces.

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Vigil - Mantua bore
me; the calabrians captivated me; now Naples holds me. I sang of flocks. Fields and leaders.

30
Q

Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco

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Vigil - Not ignorant of evil, I learn to aid the unfortunate

31
Q

Non passibus aequis

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Vigil - With unequal steps

32
Q

Nunc scio quid sit amor

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Vigil - Now I know what love is

33
Q

O lux Dardanidae, spes o fidissima teucrum

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Vigil - O light of the family of Dardanus, o most faithful hope of the family of Teucer

34
Q

O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem

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Vigil - O you who have endured heavier things, the god will
grant an end to those things too

35
Q

Romanos, Rerum dominos, gentemque togatam

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Vigil - The romans, masters of all things, the toga clad race

36
Q

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

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Vigil - Even here the woes of man touch the heart of man

37
Q

Tempus Fugit

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Vigil - Time flies

38
Q

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

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Vigil - I fear the Greeks and the gifts they bring

39
Q

Tu regere imperio populous Romane memento (hae tibi erunt artes) pacique imponere morem, parcere
subiectis et debeellare superbos.

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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

40
Q

Ultima thule

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Vigil - Farthest Thule (to the romans , the most distant place
known

41
Q

Varium et mutabile semper femina

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Vigil - A woman is an ever changing and fickle thing

Customs, PMAQ, Geo (43 decks)

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