Meaning those who take risks tend to be richly rewarded the brave tend to be the most successful. "Fortune favours the bold", "Fortune favours the brave" and "Fortune favours the strong" are common translations of a Latin proverb. His Aeneid is also considered a national epic of ancient Rome, a title held since its composition.
Virgil has been traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. Virgil's work has had a wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as the author's guide through Hell and Purgatory. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars consider his authorship of these poems as dubious. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Publius Vergilius Maro was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.
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