Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro (October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), known in English as Virgil or Vergil, was a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the Georgics and the Aeneid, the last being an epic poem of twelve books that became the Roman Empire's national epic.
@ Sub tegmine fagi.
In the shade of a beech tree. [Eclogues (37 BC) Book I, line 1]
@ Parvis componere magna.
To compare great things with small. [Eclogues (37 BC) Book I, line 23]
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