A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor.
I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
That which an enraged woman can accomplish.
It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.
Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.
In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour’d sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death’s inexorable doom.
Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces.
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Each man is led by his own liking.
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
Thus shall you go to the stars.
You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento.
Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.
A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.
Trust the expert. -Experto credite.