Poem · Epic poemDo not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.VirgilAeneid · 19 BC★ 3.9
Poem · Epic poemTo what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold!VirgilAeneid · 19 BC★ 2.3
Poem · Epic poemWe sighted, far away, dim hills and a low coast-line-Italy. Achates was the first to hail, "Italy! Italy!" my comrades echoed in cheerful greeting.VirgilAeneid · 19 BC★ 2.2
PoemYou will have written exceptionally well if, by skillful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.HoraceArs Poetica · 19 BC★ 2.1
Poem · Epic poemI sing of arms and the man who first from the shores of Troy came destined an exile to Italy and the Lavinian beaches, a man much buffeted on land and on the deep by force of the gods because of fierce Juno's never-forgetting anger.VirgilAeneid · 19 BC★ 2.1