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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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How greatly changed from that Hector who comes home wearing the armour stripped from<br />

Achilles!<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 2, l. 274<br />

Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium et ingens<br />

Gloria Teucrorum.<br />

We Trojans are at an end, Ilium has ended and the vast glory <strong>of</strong> the Teucrians.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 2, l. 325<br />

Moriamur et in media arma ruamus.<br />

Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.<br />

Let us die even as we rush into the midst <strong>of</strong> the battle. <strong>The</strong> only safe course for the defeated is<br />

to expect no safety.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 2, l. 353<br />

Dis aliter visum.<br />

<strong>The</strong> gods thought otherwise.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 2, l. 428<br />

Non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis<br />

Tempus eget.<br />

Now is not the hour that requires such help, nor those defenders.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 2, l. 521<br />

Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,<br />

Auri sacra fames!<br />

What do you not drive human hearts into, cursed craving for gold!<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 3, l. 56<br />

Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.<br />

A monster horrendous, hideous and vast, deprived <strong>of</strong> sight.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 3, l. 658<br />

Quis fallere possit amantem?<br />

Who could deceive a lover?<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 4, l. 296<br />

Nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae<br />

Dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus.<br />

Nor will it ever upset me to remember Elissa so long as I can remember who I am, so long as<br />

the breath <strong>of</strong> life controls these limbs.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 4, l. 335 (Aeneas, <strong>of</strong> Dido)<br />

Varium et mutabile semper<br />

Femina.<br />

Fickle and changeable always is woman.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 4, l. 569 (‘A windfane changabil huf puffe / Always is a woomman’ in Richard Stanyhurst’s

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