The Aeneid

by Virgil

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Here’s one who sold his country, Foisted a tyrant on her, set up laws Or nullified them for a price; another Entered his daughter’s room to take a bride Forbidden him.

First, then, the sky and lands and sheets of water, The bright moon’s globe, the Titan sun and stars, 975 Are fed within by Spirit, and a Mind Infused through all the members of the world Makes one great living body of the mass.

Briging

Bringing

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas” is verse 490 of Book 2 of the "Georgics" (29 BC), by the Latin poet Virgil (70 - 19 BC). It is literally translated as: “Fortunate who was able to know the causes of things”.

Intonuere poli, et crebris micat ignibus aether.

Vertitur interea caelum et ruit Oceano nox, involvens umbra magna terramque polumque Myrmidonumque dolos