Share this page: Cynthia prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis, Contactum nullis ante cupidinibus. Cynthia first, with her eyes, caught wretched me Smitten before by no desires. -- Elegies, bk. 1 [N]eque assueto mutet amore torum. Never change when love has found its home. -- Elegies, bk. 1 Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator, Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves. The sailor tells of winds, the ploughman of bulls, the soldier counts his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. -- Elegies, bk. 2 Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est. Even if strength fail, boldness at least will deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have had the will is enough. -- Elegies, bk. 2 Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes. Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- Elegies, bk. 2 Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai! Nescioquid maius nascitur Iliade. Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks! Something greater than the Iliad is born. -- Of Virgil's poem, the Aeneid, in: Elegies, bk. 2 Magnum iter ascendo, sed dat mihi vires. Great is the height that I must scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength. -- Elegies, bk. 4 Share this page:

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