Virgil P. Vergilius Maro
poet · Rome · 70–19 BC
A poet born on a farm in northern Italy, who spent eleven years writing the story of Rome's founding and died before he could finish polishing it.
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c. 19 BC · Aeneas to his companions, shipwrecked on a strange shore
Call back your courage, and send away sad fear. Perhaps one day it will be a joy to remember even this.
revocate animos, maestumque timorem
mittite: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.Aeneid, book 1, lines 202–203
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