Allen Mandelbaum

North Carolina · resident1926–2011

American translator, poet, college teacher

Died in Winston-Salem
Worked at Wake Forest University

linguist, poet, translator, university teacher

Quotations with a citation

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.

For other peoples will, I do not doubt, still cast their bronze to breathe with softer features, or draw out of the marble living lines, plead causes better, trace the ways of heaven with wands and tell the rising constellations; but yours will be the rulership of nations, remember Roman, these will be your arts: to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer, to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud.

Euryalus, is it the gods who put this fire in our minds, or is it that each man's relentless longing becomes a god to him?