Virgil Quotes


Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes


Citations

Virgil. Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold, Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 319.

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  • Nationality: Roman
  • Profession: Poet

Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil (/ˈvɜːrdʒɪl/ VUR-jil) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him as well.