P. Vergilius Maro, Aenid VI, 851-853    latin text    comment

... You, Roman, be sure to rule the world (be these your arts), to crown peace with justice, to spare the vanquished and to crush the proud....

from: Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, Aenid I-VI, with an English Translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G.P. Goold, London – Cambridge (Massachusetts), William Heinemann Ltd – Harvard University Press, 1999 (The Loeb Classical Library)