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Vivite felices, quibus est fortuna peracta Jam sua.
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Vivite felices, quibus est fortuna peracta Jam sua: nos alia ex aliis in fata vocamur.
virgil— Live and be blest! 'tis sweet to feel
Fate's book is closed and under seal.
For us, alas! that volume stern
Has many another page to turn.Lines 493–494 (translated by John Conington).Cf. Dryden's translation:
Your fortune, happy pair, already made,
Leaves you no farther wish. My diff'rent state,
Avoiding one, incurs another fate.
Vivite felices, quibus est fortuna peracta Jam sua: nos alia ex aliis in fata vocamur.
virgil— Live and be blest! 'tis sweet to feel
Fate's book is closed and under seal.
For us, alas! that volume stern
Has many another page to turn.
— Virgil, Aeneid, III, 493 (trans. John Conington).
Vivite, ait, fugie.
— Live ye, he says, I flee.
— Bishop Atterbury's Sun Dial.
Vivite felices, quibus est fortuna peracta Jam sua: nos alia ex aliis in fata vocamur.
— Cf. Dryden's translation:
Your fortune, happy pair, already made,
Leaves you no farther wish. My diff'rent state,
Avoiding one, incurs another fate.
