by Vergil (70 BCE - 19 BCE)
...iam pridem nobis caeli te regia,...
Language: Latin
...iam pridem nobis caeli te regia, Caesar, invidet atque hominum queritur curare triumphos; quippe ubi fas versum atque nefas: tot bella per orbem, tam multae scelerum facies; non ullus aratro dignus honos, squalent abductis arva colonis et curvae rigidum falces conflantur in ensem. Hinc movet Euphrates, illinc Germania bellum; vicinae ruptis inter se legibus urbes arma ferunt; saevit toto Mars inpius orbe; ut cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, addunt in spatia et frustra retinacula tendens fertur equis auriga neque audit currus habenas.
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Text Authorship:
- by Vergil (70 BCE - 19 BCE), no title, appears in Georgics I, lines 503 to the end [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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- Also set in English, a translation by David R. Slavitt , no title, copyright © [an adaptation] ; composed by Jacob Sandridge.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Thomas Neville)
- ENG English (John (or Jack) William Mackail) , first published 1910
- ENG English (James Rhoades) , first published 1900
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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 82