The Tears of Things

Peter Schwenger
Seven years after the fall of Troy, Aeneas’s wanderings bring him, in book I of Virgil’s Aeneid, to the city of Carthage. Upon the citadel’s walls he finds depicted scenes from the Trojan war, whose story has outsped his ships. With tears run-ning down his face, Aeneas speaks of tears of another sort, lacrimae rerum—literally, “the tears of things”:
…sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi,
Sunt lacrimae rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt.
[Here too we find virtue somehow rewarded,
Tears in the nature of things, hearts touched by human transience.] (461–62)

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