Virgil — "Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will ra…"

Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.
Virgil — Virgil Ancient · Aeneid

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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.

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The Aeneid (Book 7, Line 312), spoken by Juno.

Date: c. 29-19 BCE

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