Examples of using "Provações" in a sentence and their english translations:
But for others, the trials are just beginning.
"Comrades! of ills not ignorant; far more / than these ye suffered, and to these as well / will Jove give ending, as he gave before."
"Whosoe'er thou be, / be kind, for strangers and in evil case / we roam, tost hither by the stormy sea."
"Yea, alive, indeed, / alive through all extremities of woe. / Doubt not, thou see'st the truth, no shape of empty show."
"Me hath Fortune willed / long tost, like you, through sufferings, here to rest / and find at length a refuge. Not unskilled / in woe, I learn to succour the distrest."
- Muse, recount to me the reasons; what deity was offended, or what was the queen of the gods grieving, that she should drive a man extraordinary in his piety to undergo so many misfortunes, to endure so many hardships. Do the heavenly spirits have such passions?
- O Muse, assist me and inspire my song, / the various causes and the crimes relate, / for what affronted majesty, what wrong / to injured Godhead, what offence so great / Heaven's Queen resenting, with remorseless hate, / could one renowned for piety compel / to brave such troubles, and endure the weight / of toils so many and so huge. O tell / how can in heavenly minds such fierce resentment dwell?
"O by the gods, who know the just and true, / by faith unstained – if any such there be –, / with mercy deign such miseries to view; / pity a soul that toils with evils all undue."