Note 516 — BOOK III[496]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
The verse in the Æneid (IX. 641) is as follows:
Macte nova virtute, puer! sic itur ad astra.
It was Statius who, slightly modifying Virgil's verse, said (Th. VII. 280):
Macte animo, generose puer! sic itur ad astra.
Cf. Vol. I, p. 56.—T.