fortunatue

Updated: May 21, 2025

"I engraved this line of Virgil upon the bark of a gum tree, under the shade of which Paul sometimes seated himself, in order to contemplate the agitated sea: Fortunatue et ille deos qui novit agrestes! 'Happy art thou, my son, to know only the pastoral divinities.

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre