Virgil Quotes


Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.


Citations

Virgil. Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid: Books 1-6. Translated by H. R. Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold, Harvard UP, 1999, p. 149.

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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.