"Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples –for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law,
To spare the conquered, battle down the proud" (6.1151-1154). By abiding to these words, the Romans become great conquerors through Aeneas’ lineage especially when Caesar comes along.
Quoted from Virgil's "The Aeneid" and poken by Anchises, the father of Aeneas.
Explanation:
Taken from Book VI of "The Aeneid" by Virgil, the quoted excerpt is spoken by Anchises to Aeneas. Meeting his dead father's soul to in the underworld, Aeneas was told by his father about the fate of Rome.
Through the speech or voice of the wise father, Virgil propounds his own personal ideals, propagating that the Romans should try to be more merciful in their conquests. Virgil uses Anchises as a means to voice his own beliefs and wants for Rome to do and stand for. Anchises uses rhetoric in saying that the Roman Empire's justification for what it had done to bring upon justice and law is the same as the Trojans' and Aeneas had made when they settled in Rome.
