Daily quote by Austria

• Bella gerant alii; tu, felix Austria, nube:
  Nam quæ Mars aliis, dat tibi regna Venus.
  • Fight those who will, let well-starred Austria wed;
    And conquer kingdoms in the marriage-bed.
  • Quoted in Sir William Stirling-Maxwell’s Cloister Life of Charles V (1846), chap. i. p. 3, note. The first words of this distich are from Ovid’s Heroides, 13, 84 (Laodamia and Protesilaus), Bella gerant alii: Protesilaus amet. When and by whom the quotation was composed is unknown.
  • W. F. H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 215