Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE)
“What I need is to find a way I too can rise in triumph
from the earth and live on in the mouths of men.
I’ll be the first, the very first, if I’m let live long enough,
to bring back to my own place from the heights of Helicon the
prize of the Muses…”
- From Virgil’s Georgics (Book 3, approximately between lines 8-11), translated by Peter Fallon (The Gallery Press, 2004, and later Oxford World Classics, 2006, 2009).
