Ocupation: Poet
Life: October 15, 70 BC - September 21, 19 BC
Birthday: October 15
Death: September 21
I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger.
- Virgil
source: Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.1, Univ of California Press
topic: Fate, Journey, Men, Land And Water, Battered