Quotations: Vergil

Question 1

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentīs

Answer 1

Vigil - I fear Greeks even (those) bearing gifts

Question 2

Dux femina factī

Answer 2

Vigil - A woman (was the) leader of the deed

Question 3

Possunt quia posse videntur

Answer 3

Vigil - They are able because they seem to be able

Question 4

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit

Answer 4

Vigil - Perhaps at some time it will help to remember even these things

Question 5

Labor omnia vincit

Answer 5

Vigil - Work overcomes all

Question 6

Dum spiro, spero

Answer 6

Vigil - While I breathe, I hope

Question 7

Fama volat

Answer 7

Vigil - Rumor flies

Question 8

Fugit irreparabile tempus

Answer 8

Vigil - Time flies irretrievable

Question 9

Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amorī

Answer 9

Vigil - Love conquers all and let us yield to love

Question 10

Aspirat primo fortuna labori

Answer 10

Vigil - Fortune smiles upon a first attempt

Question 11

Dis aliter visum

Answer 11

Vigil - It seemed otherwise to the gods

Question 12

Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem

Answer 12

Vigil - Of such a great effort it was to found the Roman race

Question 13

Ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito

Answer 13

Vigil - Do not yield to evil but go more boldly against it

Question 14

Imperium sine fine dedi

Answer 14

Vigil - I have given power without end

Question 15

Amor omnia vincit

Answer 15

Vigil - Love conquers all

Question 16

Anguis in Herba

Answer 16

Vigil - A snake in the grass (a hidden danger)

Question 17

Arma virumque cano

Answer 17

Vigil - I sing of weapons and a man (first words of the Aeneid)

Question 18

Audentis fortuna iuvat

Answer 18

Vigil - Fortune favors the bold

Question 19

Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebat

Answer 19

Vigil - All were silent and listened to him

Question 20

Dextrum Scylla latus, Laevum implacata Charybdis

Answer 20

Vigil - Scylla is on the right, and unappeasable Charybdis on the left

Question 21

Dis aliter Visum

Answer 21

Vigil - It was seen otherwise by the gods

Question 22

Facilis descensus Averno

Answer 22

Vigil - Easy is the descent to Avernus

Question 23

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

Answer 23

Vigil - Happy is the one who was able to learn the causes of things

Question 24

Fervet opus

Answer 24

Vigil - The place hums with activity

Question 25

Fidus Achates

Answer 25

Vigil - Faithful Achates

Question 26

Furor arma ministrat

Answer 26

Vigil - Fury gives power to weopons

Question 27

Illium Fuit

Answer 27

Vigil - Troy was (and is no more)

Question 28

Infandum regina iubes renovare dolorem

Answer 28

Vigil - Too deep for words, O queen, lies the sorrow that you ask me to renew

Question 29

Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc Parthenope Cecini Pascua, rura, duces.

Answer 29

Vigil - Mantua bore me; the calabrians captivated me; now Naples holds me. I sang of flocks. Fields and leaders.

Question 30

Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco

Answer 30

Vigil - Not ignorant of evil, I learn to aid the unfortunate

Question 31

Non passibus aequis

Answer 31

Vigil - With unequal steps

Question 32

Nunc scio quid sit amor

Answer 32

Vigil - Now I know what love is

Question 33

O lux Dardanidae, spes o fidissima teucrum

Answer 33

Vigil - O light of the family of Dardanus, o most faithful hope of the family of Teucer

Question 34

O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem

Answer 34

Vigil - O you who have endured heavier things, the god will grant an end to those things too

Question 35

Romanos, Rerum dominos, gentemque togatam

Answer 35

Vigil - The romans, masters of all things, the toga clad race

Question 36

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

Answer 36

Vigil - Even here the woes of man touch the heart of man

Question 37

Tempus Fugit

Answer 37

Vigil - Time flies

Question 38

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

Answer 38

Vigil - I fear the Greeks and the gifts they bring

Question 39

Tu regere imperio populous Romane memento (hae tibi erunt artes) pacique imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debeellare superbos.

Answer 39

Vigil - Roman no, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts), to impose a habit of peace, to spare those who are conquered and war down those who are arrogant

Question 40

Ultima thule

Answer 40

Vigil - Farthest Thule (to the romans , the most distant place known

Question 41

Varium et mutabile semper femina

Answer 41

Vigil - A woman is an ever changing and fickle thing