Virgil — "Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito quam tua te Fortuna sinet."
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito quam tua te Fortuna sinet.
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"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!"
"Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt."
"Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
"Yield not to misfortunes, but advance more boldly against them."
"Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum."
About Virgil (70-19 BCE)
Roman poet of the Augustan age whose Aeneid is the founding national epic of Rome and Western literature's most-imitated hexameter poem. Closely associated with Ovid (younger Augustan poet of Metamorphoses) and Horace (third Augustan-era major poet). For an intellectual contrast, see Lucan, Roman poet (39-65 CE) of the Pharsalia — Lucan's Pharsalia explicitly rejected Virgilian Augustan epic by writing a civil-war epic that refused divine machinery and treated Roman empire as tragedy rather than destiny. Lucan's Pharsalia is a 60-years-later rebuke of the Aeneid's imperial theology — civil war as crime instead of providence.