Virgil (c. 70-19 BCE)
“Fortune befriends the bold.”
- This quote comes from approximately line 284 of Book 10 from Virgil’s Aeneid. The translation used here is by John Dryden and edited by Charles Eliot in The Harvard Classics: Virgil’s Aeneid (P.G. Collier & Son, 1937). It is a variant of the popularized Roman proverb, “Fortune favors the bold.”
Alternate translations of the same line include:
“Fortune speeds the bold!”
-From The Aeneid (Book 10, approximately 340) by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin Classics, 2010).
“Fortune favours the brave.”
-Vergil, Aeneid, A Translation into English prose by A. S. Kline (2002)
“Fortune will help the brave.”
-Vergil. Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. (via Perseus.Tufts.edu)
“Fortune aids daring.”
-Virgil, Aeneid (Book 10, between lines 262-296), translated by J. W. Mackail (dated 1885) via Project Gutenberg.
