Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1951 |
| AUTHOR: | Virgil (70–19 |
| QUOTATION: | … I saw these terrible things, and took great part in them. (… quaeque ipse miserrima vidi et quorum pars magna fui.) |
| ATTRIBUTION: | 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 |