Eneida

Notable quotes

“Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem!”
— So hard and huge a task it was to found the Roman people.
“Exoritur clamorque virum clangorque tubarum.”
— New clamors and new clangors now arise, The sound of trumpets mixed with fighting cries.
“Id cinerem aut manes credis curare sepultos?”
— Do you think that dust or buried shades give heed to that?
“Jam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus.”
— Now aged, but a god's old age is hardy and green.
“Ille, velut pelagi rupes immota, resistit.”
— He, like an unmoved ocean cliff, resists.
“Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras.”
— And with a groan for that indignity His spirit fled into the gloom below.

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