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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘Aeneid’ bk. 6, l. 893<br />

Geniumque loci primamque deorum<br />

Tellurem Nymphasque et adhuc ignota precatur<br />

Flumina.<br />

He prays to the spirit <strong>of</strong> the place and to Earth the first <strong>of</strong> the gods and to the Nymphs and as<br />

yet unknown rivers.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 7, l. 136<br />

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.<br />

If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move Hell.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 7, l. 312<br />

O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos.<br />

Oh if only Jupiter would give me back my past years.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 8, l. 560<br />

Quadripedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum.<br />

Hooves with a galloping sound are shaking the powdery plain.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 8, l. 596<br />

Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.<br />

Blessings on your young courage, boy; that’s the way to the stars.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 9, l. 641<br />

Audentis Fortuna iuvat.<br />

Fortune assists the bold.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 10, l. 284<br />

Experto credite.<br />

Trust one who has gone through it.<br />

‘Aeneid’ bk. 11, l. 283<br />

Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi<br />

Silvestrem tenui Musam meditaris avena.<br />

Tityrus, you who lie under cover <strong>of</strong> the spreading beech-tree, you are practising your pastoral<br />

music on a thin stalk.<br />

‘Eclogue’ no. 1, l. 1<br />

O Meliboee, deus nobis haec otia fecit.<br />

O Meliboeus, it is a god that has made this peaceful life for us.<br />

‘Eclogue’ no. 1, l. 6<br />

At nos hinc alii sitientis ibimus Afros,<br />

Pars Scythiam et rapidum cretae veniemus Oaxen<br />

Et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos.<br />

But we from here are to go some to arid Africa, another group to Scythia and others <strong>of</strong> us shall<br />

come to the Oaxes swirling with clay, and amongst the Britons who are kept far away from the

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