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Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi; Et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit Imago.
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Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi.

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— My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave.
— Virgil, Aeneid, Book IV, line 653 (trans. John Conington).

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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "Vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro."

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— Odes Book III, ode xxix, line 41. (c. 23 BC and 13 BC).

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Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi; Et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit Imago.


— Cf. Dryden's translation:
My fatal course is finish'd; and I go,
A glorious name, among the ghosts below.

— Cf. also Symmons' translation:
Yet have I lived!—and lived for noble ends!
My shade in glory to the shades descends.

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Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "Vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro."


— He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."
— Book III, ode xxix, line 41.

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Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "Vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro."

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— He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."
Book III, ode xxix, line 41.

Tags: Ille, potens, sui, laetusque, deget, cui, licet, diem, dixisse

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