Lucano Frases famosas
“César, grande em tudo,
não acreditava em nada efectivamente enquanto existisse algo por fazer.”
Variante: César, grande em tudo,
não acreditava em nada efetivamente enquanto existisse algo por fazer.
“Mas César tinha mais do que um mero nome e reputação militar: sua energia nunca poderia descansar e sua única desgraça era conquistar sem guerra.”
Sed non in Caesare tantum<br/>nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus<br/>stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
Lucano: Frases em inglês
“But Virtue will follow fearless wherever destiny summons her. It will be a reproach to the gods, that they have made even me guilty.”
Sed quo fata trahunt virtus secura sequetur.
Crimen erit superis et me fecisse nocentem.
Book II, line 287 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“But Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy could never rest, and his one disgrace was to conquer without war.”
Sed non in Caesare tantum<br/>nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus<br/>stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
Sed non in Caesare tantum
nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus
stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
Book I, line 143 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“All that we see is God; every motion we make is God also.”
Estque dei sedes nisi terra et pontus et aer
et caelum et virtus? superos quid quaerimus ultra?
Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quocumque moveris.
Book IX, line 578 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Contexto: Has he any dwelling-place save earth and sea, the air of heaven and virtuous hearts? Why seek we further for deities? All that we see is God; every motion we make is God also.
“But silenced now are laws in war: we driven from our homes; yet is our exile willing.”
Postquam leges bello siluere coactae
pellimur e patriis laribus patimurque volentes
exilium.
Book I, line 277 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
“He who denies his due to the strong man armed grants him everything.”
Arma tenenti
omnia dat, qui justa negat.
Book I, line 348 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“How safe and easy the poor man's life and his humble dwelling! How blind men still are to Heaven's gifts!”
O vitae tuta facultas
pauperis angustique lares! o munera nondum
intellecta deum!
Book V, line 527 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“A name illustrious and revered by nations.”
Clarum et venerabile nomen
gentibus.
Book IX, line 202 (tr. H. T. Riley).
Pharsalia
“Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
No more entreat the gods: with sword in hand
Seize on our fates; and Caesar in your deeds
This day is great or little.”
Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro.
in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
Book VII, line 252 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
“Then empty rumour to well-grounded fear gave strength.”
Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.
Book I, line 469 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
“No—foreign swords could never pierce so deeply.
The deadliest wounds are dealt by citizen hands.”
Nulli penitus descendere ferro
contigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.
Book I, line 31 (tr. Brian Walters).
Pharsalia
“The vulnerable points of Liberty now making her last stand on earth.”
Libertas ultima mundi
quo steterit ferienda loco.
Book VII, line 580 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“That which you weep for is what you really loved.”
Quod defles, illud amasti.
Book VIII, line 85 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“There will be no loyalty between associates in tyranny
and no power will tolerate a partner.”
Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas<br/>inpatiens consortis erit.
Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas
inpatiens consortis erit.
Book I, line 92 (tr. Susan H. Braund).
Pharsalia
“It was the chain of jealous fate, and the speedy fall which no eminence can escape; it was the grievous collapse of excessive weight, and Rome unable to support her own greatness.”
Invida fatorum series summisque negatum<br/>stare diu nimioque graves sub pondere lapsus<br/>nec se Roma ferens.
Invida fatorum series summisque negatum
stare diu nimioque graves sub pondere lapsus
nec se Roma ferens.
Book I, line 70 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Make haste; delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.”
Tolle moras: semper nocuit differre paratis.
Book I, line 281 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Great things come crashing down upon themselves – such is the limit of growth ordained by heaven for success.”
In se magna ruunt: laetis hunc numina rebus<br/>crescendi posuere modum.
In se magna ruunt: laetis hunc numina rebus
crescendi posuere modum.
Book I, line 81 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“If a man would be righteous, let him depart from a court. Virtue is incompatible with absolute power. He who is ashamed to commit cruelty must always fear it.”
Exeat aula
qui volt esse pius. Virtus et summa potestas
non coeunt; semper metuet quem saeva pudebunt.
Book VIII, line 493 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“But many are driven to utmost peril by the mere dread of coming danger. He is truly brave, who is both quick to endure the ordeal, if it be close and pressing, and willing also to let it wait.”
Multos in summa pericula misit<br/>venturi timor ipse mali. Fortissimus ille est
qui, promptus metuenda pati, si comminus instent,
et differre potest.
Multos in summa pericula misit
venturi timor ipse mali. Fortissimus ille est
qui, promptus metuenda pati, si comminus instent,
et differre potest.
Book VII, line 104 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“The very ruins have been destroyed.”
Etiam periere ruinae.
Book IX, line 969 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“One stroke of sword and all the world is yours.
Make plain to all men that the crowds who decked
Pompeius' hundred pageants scarce were fit
For one poor triumph.”
Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum;
sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbem
curribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi.
Book VII, line 278 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
“Behold the true father of his country.”
Ecce parens verus patriae.
Book IX, line 601 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“The Bards also, who by the praises of their verse transmit to distant ages the fame of heroes slain in battle, poured forth at ease their lays in abundance.”
Vos quoque qui fortes animas, belloque peremptas
Laudibus in longum vates dimittitis aevum,
Plurima securi fudistis carmina, Bardi.
Book I, line 447 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Men are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.”
Ignorantque datos, ne quisquam seruiat, enses.
Book IV, line 579 (tr. J. D. Duff).
E. Ridley's translation:
: The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave.
Pharsalia
“Poverty was scorned,
Fruitful of warriors; and from all the world
Came that which ruins nations.”
Fecunda virorum
paupertas fugitur totoque accersitur orbe
quo gens quaeque perit.
Book I, line 165 (tr. Edward Ridley).
Pharsalia
“[She] is not permitted to reveal as much as she is suffered to know.”
Nec tantum prodere vati
quantum scire licet.
Book V, line 176 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.”
Usque adeo solus ferrum mortemque timere
auri nescit amor.
Book III, line 118 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“You have taken from me the one privilege of civil war – the power of granting life to the defeated.”
Unica belli
praemia civilis, victis donare salutem,
perdidimus.
Book IX, line 1066 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“Serpents, thirst, burning-sand – all are welcomed by the brave; endurance finds pleasure in hardship; virtue rejoices when it pays dear for its existence.”
Serpens, sitis, ardor harenae
dulcia virtuti; gaudet patientia duris;
laetius est, quotiens magno sibi constat, honestum.
Book IX, line 402 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“The dead are free from Fortune; Mother Earth has room for all her children, and he who lacks an urn has the sky to cover him.”
Libera fortunae mors est; capit omnia tellus
quae genuit; caelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.
Book VII, line 818 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“More was lost there than mere life and existence: we were overthrown for all time to come.”
Plus est quam vita salusque
quod perit: in totum mundi prosternimur aevum.
Book VII, line 639 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia