Earlier today my colleague sent me an article on the September 11th Museum in New York City. Clearly visible in the photograph accompanying the article is an English translation of a line from Book 9 of Vergil’s Aeneid. I had not heard that this quotation was being included, but it is very moving. Here are the Latin lines and a translation:
Aeneid IX.446-449
Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt,
nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo,
dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum
accolet imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Happy pair! If my poetry has the power,
while the House of Aeneas lives beside the Capitol’s
immobile stone, and a Roman leader rules the Empire,
no day will raze you from time’s memory.
Translated by A. S. Kline.
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