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„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
“Fate will find a way.”
Fata viam invenient.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book X, Line 113
“Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods!”
Discite justitiam moniti et non temnere divos.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 620 (H. Rushton Fairclough)
“This man sold his country for gold.”
Vendidit hic auro patriam.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 621
“An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.”
Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, Line 658 (tr. Mandelbaum); of Polyphemus.
“Jove almighty,
nod assent to the daring work I have in hand!”
Iuppiter omnipotens, audacibus adnue coeptis.
Virgil
Aeneid
Compare: Annuit cœptis ("[God] has favored our undertaking"), motto on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States.
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 625 (tr. Fagles)
“But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying.”
Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile<!--inreparabile?--> tempus.
Virgil
Georgics
Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.
Book III, line 284; often quoted as tempus fugit ('time flies').
Compare Poor Richard's maxim of 1748: "Lost Time is never found again."
Georgics (29 BC)
“I shudder as I tell the tale.”
Horresco referens.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 204 (tr. Fairclough)
“A mind conscious of its own rectitude.”
Mens sibi conscia recti.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 604
“There is no place for death.”
Nec morti esse locum.
Virgil
Georgics
Book IV, line 226
Georgics (29 BC)
“The noblest motive is the public good.”
Vincit amor patriae.
Richard Steele, in The Spectator. Compare Aeneid 6.823: Vincet amor patriae ("Love of country shall prevail").
"In The City of God Augustine quoted the line but changed the verb from the future to the present tense (vincet › vincit). That form became a traditional quotation, often reprinted and reproduced on medals, monuments, and family crests. [...] "Vincit amor patriae" appeared at the head of Spectator no. 200 (October 19, 1711) without translation. The essays from the Spectator were published and republished as books as early as 1713. To assist readers who lacked Latin or Greek, the editors of the 1744 edition provided English translations for its epigraphs; to "Vincit amor patriae" was added "The noblest Motive is the Publick Good." It stuck. The translation was modernized and made its way into innumerable texts and onto public buildings. It is inscribed on the ceiling of the south corridor of the Library of Congress and attributed to Virgil. A mistranslation became a quotation." —Willis Goth Regier, Quotology (2010), pp. 40–41.
Misattributed
“Here and there are seen swimmers in the vast abyss.”
Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 118 (tr. Fairclough)
“Is it then so sad a thing to die?”
Usque adeone mori miserum est?
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 646 (tr. Alexander Thomson)
“Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.”
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 95
“Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.”
Desine fata deum flecti sperare precando.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 376
“The leader of the enterprise a woman.”
Dux femina facti.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 364 (tr. Fairclough); of Dido.
“Your honor, your name, your praise will live forever.”
Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 609 (tr. Fagles); Aeneas to Dido.
“Hunger that persuades to evil.”
Malesuada Fames.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 276
“Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.”
Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Line 641
“If only Jupiter would give me back
The past years and the man I was…”
O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VIII, Line 560 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”
Cantantes licet usque (minus via laedit) eamus.
Virgil
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Eclogues
Book IX, line 64
Eclogues (37 BC)
“Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.”
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 203 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
“Who can deceive a lover?”
Quis fallere possit amantem?
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 296
“Amid the friendly silence of the peaceful moon.”
Tacitae per amica silentia lunae.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 255 (tr. Fairclough)
“Friends and companions,
Have we not known hard hours before this?
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
God will grant us an end to these as well.”
O socii—neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum—
O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Lines 198–199 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
“Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.”
Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 174 (tr. Robert Fagles)
“Who could tell such things and still refrain from tears?”
Quis talia fando
Temperet a lacrimis?
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 6 and 8 (tr. Fagles)
“It is easier to steal the club of Hercules than a line from Homer.”
Facilius esse Herculi clavam quam Homero versum subripere.
As quoted by Asconius Pedianus, and reported in Suetonius-Donatus, Vita Vergili http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/de_Poetis/Vergil*.html (Life of Virgil), 46 http://virgil.org/vitae/.
Attributed
“Give lilies with full hands.”
Manibus date lilia plenis.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 883
“Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.”
Degeneres animos timor arguit.
Virgil
Aeneid
Quelle: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Line 13
