Aeneid 5.709–710

Nautes to Aeneas after the ships burn

Nate dea, quo fata trahunt retrahuntque, sequamur;

quidquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.

Son of the goddess, wherever the fates draw us on and draw us back, let us follow;

whatever comes, every turn of Fortune must be mastered by endurance.

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