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Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!
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‘En Priamus! Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi, Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. Solve metus; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.' Sic ait atque animum pictura pascit inani.
virgil— 'See Priam! aye, praise waits on worth
E'en in this corner of the earth;
E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.
Dismiss your fear: we sure may claim
To find some safety in our fame.'
He said; and feeds his hungry heart
With shapes of unsubstantial art.Lines 461–464 (translated by John Conington).
Si genus humanum et mortalia temnitis arma, At sperate deos memores fandi atque nefandi.
virgil— If men and mortal arms ye slight,
Know there are gods who watch o'er right.Lines 542–543 (translated by John Conington).Cf. Dryden's translation:
If our hard fortune no compassion draws,
Nor hospitable rights, nor human laws,
The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?
virgil— Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?Lines 56–57 (translated by John Conington); of Polydorus's murder.Cf. Dryden's translation:
O sacred hunger of pernicious gold!
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?Cf. also Symmons' translation:
Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll
To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!
Improbe Amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis!
virgil— Curst Love! what lengths of tyrant scorn
Wreak'st not on those of woman born?Line 412 (translated by John Conington); referring to the unwise actions undertaken by Dido, actuated by amorous passion.Cf. Dryden's translation:
All-pow'rful Love! what changes canst thou cause
In human hearts, subjected to thy laws!
Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.
ovid— The deeds of men never escape the gods.
— Ovid, Tristium, I. 2. 97.
Sunt lacrymæ rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.
— Tears are due to human misery, and human sufferings touch the mind.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 462.
Deus ille princeps, parens rerum fabricatorque mundi, nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris, quæ quidem mortalia sunt, animalibus, quam dicendi facultate.
— God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and Architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
— Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria, II. 17. 2.
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?
— Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst?
— Virgil, Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, lines 56-57 (translated by John Conington).
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?
— Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do?
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), III. 56.
Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora cæcæ, Noctis habent.
— Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
— Ovid, Metamorphoses, VI. 472.
‘En Priamus! Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi, Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt. Solve metus; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.' Sic ait atque animum pictura pascit inani.
— 'See Priam! aye, praise waits on worth
E'en in this corner of the earth;
E'en here the tear of pity springs,
And hearts are touched by human things.
Dismiss your fear: we sure may claim
To find some safety in our fame.'
He said; and feeds his hungry heart
With shapes of unsubstantial art.
— Lines 461–464 (translated by John Conington).
Si genus humanum et mortalia temnitis arma, At sperate deos memores fandi atque nefandi.
— Cf. Dryden's translation:
If our hard fortune no compassion draws,
Nor hospitable rights, nor human laws,
The gods are just, and will revenge our cause.
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?
— Cf. Dryden's translation:
O sacred hunger of pernicious gold!
What bands of faith can impious lucre hold?
— Cf. also Symmons' translation:
Dire lust of gold! how mighty thy controll
To bend to crime man's impotence of soul!
