But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts) impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!Īuferre trucidare rapere falsis nominis imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?Įxcudent allii spirantia mollius aera (credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento (hae tibi erunt artes), pacisque imponere morem, parcere subiectis et debellare superbos. What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race. If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years. O mihi praeteritos referat si Iuppiter annos. Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system. Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend. According to Plutarch (Caesar 32), these words were actually Greek - Anerriphtho kubos.Įheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, labuntur anni, nec pietas moram, rugis et instanti senaectae, adferet indomitaeque morti.Īlas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. No turning back Upon crossing the Rubicon Also written as 'Alea iacta est'. Liberty - Slogan? After the battle of Mutina Play-acting Spoken by Augustus on his death-bed. If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage. May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure. sistere in sua sede liceat atque eius rei fructum percipere, quem peto, ut optimi status auctor dicar et moriens ut feram mecum spem, mansura in vestigio suo fundamenta rei p. Historical quote - Accomplishment - Actual quote is in the third person: Marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi

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