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The Aeneid QUOTES

The Aeneid QUOTES

1 " Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all... "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

2 " Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go? "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

3 " Death's brother, sleep. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

4 " Facilis descensus Averno:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
(The gates of Hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this task and mighty labor lies.) "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

5 " The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

6 " What a tale he's told, what a bitter bowl of war he's drunk to the dregs. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

7 " ...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

8 " ..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea
and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl... "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

9 " The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or dulled by limbs and flesh that's born for death. That is the source of all men's fears and longings, joys and sorrows, nor can they see the heaven's light, shut up in the body's tomb, a prison dark and deep. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

10 " But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent, I’ll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be - if I cannot sway the heavens, I’ll wake the powers of hell! "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

11 " But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love,
hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,
consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...]
His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling--
no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

12 " For each man his day stands fixed. For all mankind the days of life are few, and not to be restored. But to prolong fame by deeds, that is valour's task. (Hercules to Pallas) "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

13 " et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

14 " A festive din now rose and echoed through the palace halls. Lighted lamps hung from the coffered ceiling rich with gold leaf, and torches with high flames prevailed over the night. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

15 " Some of us looked in awed wonder at that massive horse, the gift for Minerva, the never-wed, which was to be our destruction. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

16 " We, poor fools, spent this our last day decorating with festal greenery every temple in our town. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

17 " Then, like ravening wolves in a black mist, when the belly's lawless rage has driven them blindly forth, and their whelps at home await them with thirsty jaws, through swords, through foes we pass to certain death, and hold our way to the city's heart; black night hovers around with sheltering shade. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

18 " To Romans I set no boundary in space or time. I have granted them dominion, and it has no end. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

19 " I dragged on my ruined life in darkness and grief, wrathful in my heart... "

― Virgil , The Aeneid

20 " Though far away, I will chase you with murky brands and, when chill death has severed soul and body, everywhere my shade shall haunt you. "

― Virgil , The Aeneid