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Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi.
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Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi; Et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit Imago.
virgil— My life is lived, and I have played
The part that Fortune gave,
And now I pass, a queenly shade,
Majestic to the grave.Lines 653–654 (translated by John Conington).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.
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."
— Odes Book III, ode xxix, line 41. (c. 23 BC and 13 BC).
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.
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.
Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "Vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro."
horace— 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.
