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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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longing for the further shore.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 6, l. 313<br />

Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artis<br />

Quique sui memores aliquos fecere merendo:<br />

Omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.<br />

Or those who have improved life by the knowledge they have found out, and those who have<br />

made themselves remembered by some for their services: round the brows <strong>of</strong> all these is worn a<br />

snow-white band.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 6, l. 663<br />

Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus<br />

Mens agitat molem et magno se corpore miscet.<br />

<strong>The</strong> spirit within nourishes, and mind instilled throughout the living parts activates the whole<br />

mass and mingles with the vast frame.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 6, l. 726<br />

Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera<br />

(Credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus,<br />

Orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus<br />

Describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent:<br />

Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento<br />

(Hae tibi erunt artes), pacique imponere morem,<br />

Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.<br />

Others shall shape bronzes more smoothly so that they seem alive (yes, I believe it), shall<br />

mould from marble living faces, shall better plead their cases in court, and shall demonstrate with<br />

a pointer the motions <strong>of</strong> the heavenly bodies and tell the stars as they rise: you, Roman, make<br />

your task to rule nations by your government (these shall be your skills), to impose ordered ways<br />

upon a state <strong>of</strong> peace, to spare those who have submitted and to subdue the arrogant.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 6, l. 847<br />

Heu, miserande puer, si qua fata aspera rumpas,<br />

Tu Marcellus eris. Manibus date lilia plenis.<br />

Alas, pitiable boy—if only you might break your cruel fate!—you are to be Marcellus. Give<br />

me lilies in armfuls.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 6, l. 882<br />

Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur<br />

Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris,<br />

Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto,<br />

Sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are two gates <strong>of</strong> Sleep, one <strong>of</strong> which it is held is made <strong>of</strong> horn and by it real ghosts have<br />

easy egress; the other shining fashioned <strong>of</strong> gleaming white ivory, but deceptive are the visions the<br />

Underworld sends that way to the light.

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