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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1951 |
| AUTHOR: | Virgil (70–19 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | … I saw these terrible things, and took great part in them. (… quaeque ipse miserrima vidi et quorum pars magna fui.) |
| ATTRIBUTION: | VIRGIL, The Aeneid, trans. James H. Mantinband, book 2, lines 5–6, p. 25 (1964). This sentence has also been translated as: “All of which misery I saw, and a great part of which I was.” Aeneas was describing the sack of Troy. |
| SUBJECTS: | War |
| WORKS: | Vergil Collection |
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