Vergil:
157
Zitate
21
Gefällt mir
Vergil Berühmte Zitate
„Entstehen möge ein Rächer aus unserm Gebein.“
Aeneis IV, 625 / Dido
Original lat.: "Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor."
„Im Frühling kehrt die Wärme in die Knochen zurück.“
Georgica III, 272
Original lat.: "Vere calor redit ossibus."
„Dem Wagemutigen hilft das Glück!“
Aeneis X, 284 / Turnus
Original lat.: "Audentis fortuna iuvat."
Grundlage des Sprichworts "Audaces fortuna adiuvat"
Vergil Zitate und Sprüche
„Es lieben die Musen den Wechsel.“
Eklogen III, 59 / Palaemon
Original lat.: "Amant alterna Camenae."
„[Jupiter] nickte und der ganze Olymp erbebte.“
Aeneis IX, 106 und X, 115
Original lat.: "Adnuit et totum nutu tremefecit Olympum."
„Weiche dem Unheil nicht, doch geh ihm mutiger entgegen!“
Aeneis VI, 95
Original lat.: "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito!"
„Der Geist bewegt die Materie.“
Aeneis 6, 727; auch Leitspruch der Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr. www.fueakbw.de http://www.fueakbw.de/index.php?ShowParent=218&show_lang=fr
Original lat.: "Mens agitat molem."
„Gott freut sich der ungeraden Zahlen.“
Eklogen VIII, 75
Original lat.: "Numero deus impari gaudet."
„Ich fürchte die Danaer (Griechen), auch wenn sie Geschenke bringen.“
Original: Original lat.: "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes."
Quelle: Aeneis II, 49 / Laocoon
„Musen Siziliens, laßt uns ein wenig Erhabneres singen!“
Eklogen IV, 1
Original lat.: "Sicelides Musae, paulo maiora canamus."
„Stets launenhaft und wankelmütig ist die Frau.“
Aeneis IV, 569f / Merkur
Original lat.: "Varium et mutabile semper femina."
Grabepigramm, überliefert von Aelius Donatus: Vita Suetonii 143 f., zitiert nach: Irene Frings: Mantua me genuit – Vergils Grabepigramm auf Stein und Pergament. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998), S. 89, uni-koeln.de https://uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa/zpe/downloads/1998/123pdf/123089.pdf#page=3&search=Parthenope (PDF; 99 KB)
Original lat.: "Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc // Parthenope; cecini pascua, rura, duces."
„Die einzige Rettung für die Besiegten [ist] keine Rettung zu erhoffen.“
Original: Original lat.: "Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem."
Quelle: Aeneis II, 354 / Aeneas
Vergil: Zitate auf Englisch
“They can because they think they can.”
Possunt, quia posse videntur.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 231 (tr. John Conington)
“What a woman can do in frenzy.”
Furens quid Femina possit.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book V, Line 6 (tr. Fairclough)
“Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming."”
Mors aurem vellens, "vivite," ait, "venio."
Appendix Virgiliana, Copa 38.
Attributed
“In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;
But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:
Discolored sickness, anxious labor, come,
And age, and death's inexorable doom.”
Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalibus aevi
Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus
Et labor, et durae rapit inclementia mortis.
Virgil
Georgics
Book III, lines 66–68 (tr. John Dryden).
Georgics (29 BC)
“What madness has seized you?”
Quae te dementia cepit!
Virgil
buch
Eclogues
Book II, line 69
Eclogues (37 BC)
“At times the world sees straight, but many times the world goes astray.”
Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat.
Horace, Epistles, Book II, epistle i, line 63
Misattributed
“Roman, remember by your strength to rule
Earth's people—for your arts are to be these:
To pacify, to impose the rule of law,
To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.”
Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
(Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem,
Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 851–853 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
“Let someone arise from my bones as an Avenger.”
Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 625
“They who bettered life on earth by new-found mastery.”
Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 663 (tr. William Morris); the blessed in Elysium. A paraphrase of this is inscribed on the Nobel prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, and Literature: Inventas vitam juvat excoluisse per artes ("inventions enhance life which is beautified through art").
“Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.”
Equo ne credite, Teucri.
quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 48–49; Trojan priest of Apollo warning against the wooden horse left by the Greeks.
“Prepared for either alternative.”
In utrumque paratus.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 61
“Now, Aeneas, is the hour for courage, now for a dauntless heart!”
Nunc animis opus, Aenea, nunc pectore firmo.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 261 (tr. Fairclough); Sibyl's words to Aeneas as they enter the underworld.
“I sing for maidens and boys.”
Virginibus puerisque canto.
Horace, Odes, Book III, ode i, line 4
Misattributed
“I shall die unavenged, but I shall die,"
she says. "Thus, thus, I gladly go below
to shadows.”
‘Moriemur inultae,
Sed moriamur’ ait. ‘sic, sic juvat ire sub umbras.’
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 659–660 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)
“Trust not too much to that enchanting face;
Beauty's a charm, but soon the charm will pass.”
O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori.
Virgil
buch
Eclogues
Book II, line 17 (tr. John Dryden)
Eclogues (37 BC)
“How fortunate, both at once!
If my songs have any power, the day will never dawn
that wipes you from the memory of the ages, not while
the house of Aeneas stands by the Capitol's rock unshaken,
not while the Roman Father rules the world.”
Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt,
Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo,
Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum
Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Virgil
Aeneid
Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt,
Nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo,
Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum
Accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Lines 446–449 (tr. Robert Fagles)
“We cannot all do everything.”
Non omnia possumus omnes.
Virgil
buch
Eclogues
Book VIII, line 63 (tr. Fairclough)
Eclogues (37 BC)
“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.”
Facilis descensus Averno<!--Averni?-->:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
Virgil
Aeneid
Facilis descensus Averno:
Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;
Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras,
Hoc opus, hic labor est.
Variant translation:
: 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.
Compare:
Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, line 432
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Lines 126–129 (as translated by John Dryden)
“In those days I, Virgil, was nursed of sweet Parthenope, and rejoiced in the arts of inglorious ease.”
Illo Vergilium me tempore dulcis alebat
Parthenope studiis florentem ignobilis oti.
Virgil
Georgics
Book IV, lines 563–564 (tr. Fairclough)
Georgics (29 BC)
“Sorrow too deep to tell, your majesty,
You order me to feel and tell once more.”
Infandum, regina, jubes<!--iubes?--> renovare dolorem.
Virgil
Aeneid
Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem.
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 3 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald); these are the opening words of Aeneas's narrative about the fall of Troy, addressed to Queen Dido of Carthage.
“So strong is habit in tender years.”
Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.
Virgil
Georgics
Book II, line 272 (tr. Fairclough)
Compare: "Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." Alexander Pope, Moral Essays: Epistle I (1734), line 150.
Georgics (29 BC)
“Time bears away all things, even our minds.”
Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.
Virgil
buch
Eclogues
Book IX, line 51
Eclogues (37 BC)
“I sang of pastures, farms, and commanders.”
Cecini pascua, rura, duces.
Inscription on Virgil's tomb in Naples (tr. Bernard Knox).
Attributed
“I sail for Italy not of my own free will.”
Italiam non sponte sequor.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 361 (tr. Fitzgerald); Aeneas to Dido.
“Let fraud supply the want of force in war.”
From Book II of Dryden's Aeneid; no exact Latin equivalent exists in Virgil's work, but compare: "Dolus, an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?" (Aeneid 2.390).
Misattributed
“As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more.”
Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam,
Maiorumque fames.
Horace, Odes, Book III, ode xvi, lines 17–18
Misattributed
“I cannot bear a mother's tears.”
Nequeam lacrimas perferre parentis.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 289
“No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.”
Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 630, as translated in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999); spoken by Dido.
“I shall never deny what you deserve, my queen,
never regret my memories of Dido, not while I
can recall myself and draw the breath of life.”
Numquam, regina, negabo
Promeritam, nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae
Dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 334–336 (tr. Fagles); Aeneas to Dido.
“Learn fortitude and toil from me, my son,
Ache of true toil. Good fortune learn from others.”
Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem,
Fortunam ex aliis.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Lines 435–436 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
