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Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes Intulit agresti Latio. Captive Greece overcame her savage conqueror and brought the arts into rustic Latium.
— Epistulae, bk.2, no.1, l.156-7.
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram, Multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem lnferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.
virgil— Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,
Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.
Long labours both by sea and land he bore,
And in the doubtful war, before he won
The Latian realm, and built the destin'd town;
His banish'd gods restor'd to rites divine,
And settled sure succession in his line,
From whence the race of Alban fathers come,
And the long glories of majestic Rome.Lines 1–7, translated by John Dryden (1697).Cf. the opening lines of Homer's Odyssey (as translated by Alexander Pope): The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd, / Long exercis'd in woes, oh Muse! resound. / . . . / On stormy seas unnumber'd toils he bore.Cf. also the opening lines of Camões' The Lusiads (as translated by William Julius Mickle): Arms and the Heroes, who from Lisbon's shore, / Thro' Seas where sail was never spread before / . . . / With prowess more than human forc'd their way / To the fair kingdoms of the rising day: / What wars they wag'd, what seas, what dangers past, / What glorious empire crown'd their toils at last.
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.
horace— Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.Book II, epistle i, lines 156-157.
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.
— Greece, the captive, made her savage victor captive, and brought the arts into rustic Latium.
— Horace, Epistles 2.1.156, in Horace : Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica (1929) edited and translated by H. R. Fairclough, p. 408
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.
— Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.
— Book II, epistle i, lines 156-157.
The battellis and the man I will discriue, Fra Troyis boundis first that fugitiue By fate to Italie come and coist lauyne, Ouer land and se cachit with meikill pyne By force of goddis aboue fra euery stede Of cruel luno throw auld remembrit feid: Grete payne in batelles sufferit he also, Or he his goddis brocht in Latio And belt the ciete, fra quham of nobil fame The latyne peopill taken has thare name, And eke the faderis, princis of Alba, Come, and the walleris of grete Rome alsua.
— The battles and the man I will describe
From Troy's bounds first that fugitive
By fate to Italy came and coast Lavinia,
Over land and sea driven with great pain
By force of gods above from every stead,
Of cruel Juno through old remembered wrath:
Great pain in battles suffered he also,
Or he his gods brought in Latium
And built the city, from which of noble fame
The Latin people taken have their name,
And also the fathers, princes of Alba,
Came, and the wall-builders of great Rome also.
— Bk. 1, line 1.
