Virgil — "Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera (credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vu…"

Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera (credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.
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Aeneid, Book VI, lines 847-853

Date: ~29-19 BC

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