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Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others. [Lat., Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.] - The Aeneid (I, 630) [Philanthropy] O thrice, four times happy they! [Lat., O terque quaterque beati.] - The Aeneid (I, 94) [Happiness] What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. [Lat., Etiam quae sibi quisque timebat Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere.] - The Aeneid (II, 130) [Ruin] The supreme day has come and the inevitable hour, [Lat., Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus.] - The Aeneid (II, 324) [Death] We have been Trojans; Troy was. [Lat., Fuimus Troes; fuit Ilium.] - The Aeneid (II, 324) [Cities] The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety. [Lat., Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.] - The Aeneid (II, 354) [War] The uncertain multitude is divided by opposite opinions. - The Aeneid (II, 39) [Public] Alas! it is not well for anyone to be confident when the gods are adverse. [Lat., Heu nihil invitis fas quemquam fidere divis.] - The Aeneid (II, 402) [Gods] I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. [Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.] - The Aeneid (II, 49) [Gifts : Proverbs] From one learn all. [Lat., Ab uno disce omnes.] - The Aeneid (II, 65) [Learning] Learn now of the treachery of the Greeks, and from one example the character of the nation may be known. [Lat., Accipe nunc Danaum insidias, et crimine ab uno Disce omnes.] - The Aeneid (II, 65) [Character] Whatever may be the issue we shall share one common danger, one safety. [Lat., Quo res cunque cadant, unum et commune periculum, Una salus ambobus erit.] - The Aeneid (II, 709) [Unity] He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.] - The Aeneid (II, 724) [Example] My voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Vox faucibus haesit.] - The Aeneid (II, 774) [Voice] I was astounded, my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck in my throat. [Lat., Obstupui, steteruntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.] - The Aeneid (II, 774 and III, 48) [Fear] Be happy ye, whose fortunes are already completed. [Lat., Vivite felices, quibus est fortuna peracta Jam sua.] - The Aeneid (III, 493) [Contentment] Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? [Lat., Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?] - The Aeneid (III, 56) [Gold] We are carried up to the heaven by the circling wave, and immediately the wave subsiding, we descend to the lowest depths. [Lat., Tollimus in caelum curvato gurgite, et idem Subducta ad manes imos descendimus unda.] - The Aeneid (III, 564) [Fortune] A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] - The Aeneid (III, 658) [Sight] An immense, misshapen, marvelous monster whose eye is out. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.] - The Aeneid (III, 658) [Appearance] To give the sails to fate. [Lat., Dare fatis vela.] - The Aeneid (III, 9) [Fate] Fear in the proof of a degenerate mind. [Lat., Degeneres animos timor arguit.] - The Aeneid (IV, 13) [Fear] Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit. . . . . Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.] - The Aeneid (IV, 173) [Rumor] Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strength by its progress. [Lat., Fama, malum quo non aliud velocius ullum, Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.] - The Aeneid (IV, 174) [Gossip] Who can deceive a lover? [Lat., Quis fallere possit anamtem?] - The Aeneid (IV, 296) [Love] Displaying page 7 of 10 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10
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