Virgil
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Letters to Lucilius
The Roman poet whose verses on death and heroism are quoted as authoritative.
Would you suppose that Virgil ever recited to such a man the line, "Is it then so wretched a thing to die?
For though that man himself be snatched from sight, yet "Many a time the hero's worth returns upon the mind, and the high honour of his race.
our Virgil said excellently that they are terrible not in fact, but to see, that is, they seem so, they are not.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman epic poet cited repeatedly, both directly and through his characters, as an authority on rights of water, refuge, and settlement.
And in the same sense Virgil has asserted water to be free and open to all men.
A reasonable rule, which the divine poet has observed, when he introduced Aeneas making an offer the Latinus, who had become his father-in-law, should retain all military and civil power.
Thus Ilioneus in Virgil calls heaven to witness the injustice of the Africans in driving him and his shipwrecked companions from the hospitable use of the shore, and we are informed by Plutarch in his life of Pericles that all the Grecians approved of the complaint, which the Megarensians made against the Athenians, who had prohibited them from setting foot upon the soil of their territories, or c …
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman poet quoted anonymously among 'poetas' on nations' mutual gifts.
Excudent alii,
Consolation to Polybius
Roman epic poet whose works are recommended to Polybius as a source of solace and study.
then let Homer and Virgil—men who have deserved as well of the human race as you have deserved both of them and of all men, whom you wished to be known to more than had read them—abide long with you;
Ad Nationes
Roman poet cited twice, on Jupiter's epithet and on Juno's affection for Carthage.
For by a private title you commonly call Jupiter "the Best," and there is Virgil's "Jove the Just.
Would Juno have wished the Punic city — beloved before Samos — to be consumed, of all things, by the fires of the Aeneadae?
Apologeticum
Roman poet referenced as authority describing the nature of Rumour.
It is your own poet who says:
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Roman poet whose verses were repurposed by others (Hosidius Geta, the author's kinsman) into new compositions, used as an analogy for how heretics repurpose Scripture.
You see today out of Virgil a story composed wholly other, the matter being fitted to the verses and the verses to the matter.