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Latin quotes by Virgil Starting with phrase number 40
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- Natura ingenium disecta cadavera pandit; plus quan vitae more taciturna docet - The cadaver dissection demonstrates the wisdom of nature; more talkative than life, teaches us the taciturn death (Motto of Pedro Virgili, first director of the Military Medical College in Cadiz, Spain)
- Nimium ne crede colori - Do not rely much on the colors (the beauty) (Virgil, Bucoliche, 2, 1)
- Non omnia possumus omnes - Not everyone can do everything (Virgil)
- Nox atra cava circunvolat umbra - The night surrounds us with its black shadow (Virgil: Aeneid II, 360)
- O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos - If only Jupiter could restore those lost years (Philosophical term - Virgil, poet)
- O socii (neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum), o passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopia saxa experti. revocate animos maestumque timorem mittite; forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - O friends (for we were not unknown to prior evils) O you who’ve endured worse, the god will grant an end to this too. You’ve faced rabid Scylla, and her deep-sounding cliffs. and you’ve experienced the Cyclopes’s rocks. remember your courage and chase away gloomy fears. (Virgil - The Aeneid I 22)
- Omnia sunt plena Iovis - All are full of Jupiter (Virgil)
- Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori - Love triumphs over everything; let's give way to love (Virgil in "Bucolics")
- Paulo maiora canamus - Let us sing of somewhat greater things (Virgil)
- Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos - Deeply divided from the whole world are the British (Virgil: Eclogue I, 67)
- Possunt quia posse videntur - They can, because they think they can (Virgil)
- Quaeque ipsa miserrima vidi, et quorum pars magna fui - So many terrible things I saw, and in so many of them I played a great part (Virgil - Aeneid)
- Rari nantes in gurgite vasto - Rare survivors in the immense sea (Philosophical term - Virgil - Aeneid, I, 118)
- Sed nos immensum spatiis confecimus aequor, et iam tempus equum fumantia solvere colla - But now I have traveled a very long way, and now the time has come to unyoke my steaming horses. (Virgil - Georgics II - Time to rest after a great effort)
- Stetit illa tremens - That stood trembling (Virgil - Aeneid II, 5)
- Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt - These are the tears of things, and our mortality cuts to the heart. (Virgil - Aeneid I, 461 )
- Tantae molis erat romanam condere gentem - So great a task it as to found the Roman race (Virgil - Aeneid 1:33 - Rome wasn't built in a day !)
- Timeo danaos atque dona ferentes - I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts (Virgil - Remember the Trojan Horse?)
- Titire tu patule recubans sub tegmine fagi - Tityrus, you are lying under the shade of that broad beech (Virgil - Eclogues I)
- Una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem - The only hope for the vanquished is not to hope any salvation (virgil - Aeneid - They should only expect that they will not be saved)
- Vendidit hic auro patriam - He sold his country for gold (Virgil - Aeneid)
- Vici mea fata vivendo - I conquered my destiny by living (Virgil - Aeneid)
- Vires acquirit eundo - The forces are acquired by marching or She gathers strength as she goes (Virgil - You learn to swim by swimming)
- Vitam in tenebris luctuque trahebam - I dragged life in darkness and crying (Virgil)
- Vox faucibus haesit - His voice stayed in his throat (Virgil)
Total: 64
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