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My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave,
And now I pass, a queenly shade,
Majestic to the grave.
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Now, prostrate by an unmeant wound,
In death he welters on the ground,
And gazing on Italian skies
Of his loved Argos dreams, and dies.
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As for my sepulchre, let Heaven take care.
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Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.
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To sing thy praise, would heaven my breath prolong,
Infusing spirits worthy such a song.
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Starting with a bound, He turns the turf, and shakes the solid ground: Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow.
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The gods, if gods to goodness are inclined;
If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind,
And, more than all the gods, your generous heart.
Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!
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His snowy neck reclines upon his breast,
Like a fair flow'r by the keen share oppressed:
Like a white poppy sinking on the plain,
Whose heavy head is overcharged with rain.
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What men, what monsters, what inhuman race,
What laws, what barbarous customs of the place!
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The rest among the Britons he confined;
A race of men from all the world disjoint.
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Maybe one day it will be cheering to remember even these things.
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Then thus the bride: What fury seized on thee,
Unhappy man! to lose thyself and me?
Dragged back again by cruel destinies,
An iron slumber shuts my swimming eyes.
And now farewell! Involved in shades of night,
For ever I am ravish'd from thy sight.
In vain I reach my feeble hands to join
In sweet embraces—ah! no longer thine!
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There is but one safety to the vanquished—to hope not safety.
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Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
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Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?
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Alas, pitiable boy—if only you might break your cruel fate!—you are to be Marcellus. [People,] give me lilies in armfuls.
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Thus she spoke and turned away with a flash of her rosy neck, and her ambrosial hair exhaled a divine fragrance; her dress flowed right down to her feet and her true godhead was evident from her walk.
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Thus all below, whether by Nature's curse,
Or Fate's decree, degenerate still to worse:
So the boat's brawny crew the current stem,
And, slow advancing, struggle with the stream:
But if they slack their hands, or cease to strive,
Then down the flood with headlong haste they drive.
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Hush your tongues from idle speech.
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Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.
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That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.
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It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air — there's the rub, the task.
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I proved unfaithful to my former spouse,
And now I reap the fruits of broken vows!
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All things were full of horror and affright,
And dreadful even the silence of the night.
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We have made you [Priapus] of marble for the time being.
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I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.
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Born:
October 13, 70 BC
Died:
September 19, 19 BC
(aged 51)
Bio:
Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil 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.
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Aeneid
Georgics
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