Virgil bust. Virgilian park. Naples.
Publius Virgil Maron died on a day like today Toast, in the 19 B.C. c. It is considered the most famous latin poem and it is undoubtedly one of the largest of antiquity. From its eternal Aenida their Bucolic, his work continues to be the object of admiration and influenced names like your colleagues Ovidio or, much later, Dante aligheri. Today I briefly review her figure and pick up 25 of his phrases.
Publius Virgil Maron
I have to admit that I have a certain dislike for Virgilio. It is a purely personal and non-transferable feeling for what I had to translate from it in my first year of university. That Aenida with Aeneas and the whole gang of Greeks and Trojans we were slightly crossed with his meter and his verses of ut conjunctions and absolute ablatives. But regardless of that, I recognize its worth. These are some of his best known works.
- The Aeneid: La most important epic of Latin letters. He started it around the year 30 BC. C. and did not complete it because he died. Is a poetic vision of his homeland and it is divided into 12 books. Death surprised him, but he had left it unfinished and even ordered it destroyed. But Augusto published it. The first 6 songs are inspired by The odyssey of Homer, and the last 6 in The Iliad. Virgil introduces and connects the Romans with the heroic Trojan people.
- The Bucolics: Another book, divided into 10 eclogues, in which he completely changes third and leaves the war and praises the heroes to sing to the pastoral life. Everything from the idealization.
- The Georgics: Linking with the above, he wrote this poem dedicated to agriculture, but now the context is real, it is the sacrifice of working the land, although it also has its compensations.
- The art of Loving: Another of his most famous works. They are 3 books or songs with advice on love relationships and how to handle and wear them.
25 phrases
- Fortune favors the brave.
- Happy is the man who has trampled all his fears and can laugh at the approach of death that conquers all.
- If I cannot persuade the gods of heaven, I will move those of the underworld.
- Those who believe they can can.
- The time to live is short and irreparable for everyone.
- Not all of us can do everything.
- Love conquers all things; Let's give way to love
- It is not Fate that overwhelms us. Mortal we are and mortal is the enemy that haunts us. Lives and hands we have as many as he.
- The only salvation for the defeated is not to expect any salvation.
- Even if I had a hundred mouths and a hundred tongues, and my voice was made of iron, I could not enumerate all the forms of crime.
- What is there not to drag human hearts away, oh execrable hunger for gold?
- Sleep is the brother of death.
- How can such great anger fit in heavenly spirits?
- Human things move to tears, and their ills touch the heart.
- Fear discovers ignoble souls.
- Do not bow down to adversity; rather boldly oppose it as much as your luck allows.
- Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I'm afraid of Danaos, even if they bring gifts.
- Everyone is overcome by their passion.
- Love conquers everything, we too give in to Love.
- But if you have so much desire to know our sad adventures and to hear briefly the supreme trance of Troy, although the mind is horrified by its mere memory and it recoils in terror, I will begin.
- Dismal love, to what things do you not rush the human heart!
- Ah, if Jupiter would bring me back the years already past!
- Each one is carried away by his own pleasures.
- Easy is the descent into hell.
- Outside of myself I wield weapons and once with them in hand, I lack the necessary prudence.