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ambobus? (a morphologically peculiar adjective with a peculiar syntax here)
There is a very famous passage in the Aeneid that narrates its hero looking at some pictures of the Trojan War, which he barely escaped from:
Miratur. Videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas,
Bellaque iam ...
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Weird lines in the Aeneid (Book I, lines 444-445)
I am quite confused about how I can translate the two following lines:
[Iuno] monstrarat, caput acris equi; sic nam fore bello
egregiam et facilem victu per saecula gentem.
The real difficulty comes ...
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Last two feet of line II.355 of the Aeneid
Book II, line 355 of the Aeneid:
Sīc animīs iuvenum furor additus. Inde—lupī ceu
(Thus rage was added to the spirits of the young men. From there, like wolves [and the sentence continues in the next ...
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commentary of "Arma virumque cano"
In Aeneis commentary (left-below) it is written:
Male explicant: armatum virum; sed disiungenda sunt haec duo vocabula, ut disiunxit Tasso quum diceret: Canto l'arini pietose e 'l capitano; si vero ...
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Extra initial Aeneid lines in 1662 M. de Marolles version
I have a 1662 version of the Aeneid, with Latin and French on facing pages, with the French having been translated by M. de Marolles, Abbé de Villeloin, [additional book info continues: À Paris, Chez ...
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"Alēctō" or "Allēctō"?
"Alēctō" is the name of one of the Furies, made surprisingly famous in the Harry Potter books. It seems to come straightforwardly from Greek ă- "not" + lēg- "stop" + -tos "[adjective]", so "...
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Does the avenger arise from bones or ashes?
A famous quote of Dido's from Aeneid 4.625 is
exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor
of which my preferred poetic translation is Fitzgerald's
Rise up from my bones, avenging spirit
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Aeneis instead of "Augusteis"
I've heard that Augustus originally wanted an "Augusteis" from Vergil. I know that in the end Augustus really liked the Aeneis, but is there any known reason why exactly Vergil decided to write an "...
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Negative Future Imperatives
In reading through Book VI of Vergil's Aeneid, I came across the following line:
851 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
I believe this is translated as "you, Roman, remember to rule the ...
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Potentially Ambiguous Subject for a Verb in the Aeneid
Lines 405–407 of Vergil's Aeneid, Book 6, are as follows:
Si te nulla movet tantae pietatis imago,
at ramum hunc" (aperit ramum qui veste latebat)
"agnoscas." Tumida ex ira tum corda ...
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Translation of Lines 333–336 of Vergil's Aeneid Book 4
Tandem pauca refert: "Ego te, quae plurima fando
enumerare vales, numquam, regina, negabo
promeritam, nec me meminisse pigebit Elissae
dum memor ipse mei, dum spiritus hos regit artus. (4:333&...
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Translating "Nocte volat caelī mediō"
Line 184 of Vergil's Aeneid, Book IV, begins as follows:
Nocte volat caelī mediō
Would this be translated as "She of the sky flies in the middle of the night", or "At night she flies in the middle ...
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A type of subordinating construction governing the dative?
Here is a line from Aeneid 6:563, along with my gloss of the parts of speech and the formal inflectional categories and proposed free translation.
nulli fas casto sceleratum insistere ...
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Can a supine verb have arguments?
Consider the following line from the Aeneid, Book VI:
nec credere quivi hunc tantum tibi me discessu ferre dolorem.
Context: Aeneas has traveled into the underworld, and bumps into Dido, who he ...
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Are there historical characters in Aeneis?
Are any of the characters in the main timeline of Aeneis (or Aeneid) historical, that is, known or strongly believed to have really existed?
I want to exclude prophecies of later eras in Roman history....
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Length of i in Vergilius' "ferentis"
In the famous line "quicquid id est timeo Danaos et dona ferentis" Vergilius uses an older plural accusative form ferentis instead of ferentes.
(It is unimportant here whether quicquid or quidquid is ...
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Fifth spondee in Aeneis I.690
I ran into this hexameter verse by Vergilius when researching for an answer to another question:
exuit, et gressu gaudens incedit Iuli.
(Aeneis I.690)
The only way I seem to able to scan this ...
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Why is Virgil's Aeneid considered incomplete?
It's well known that Virgil died before fully editing the Aeneid and that he wanted the manuscript to be burned. What isn't immediately clear to me, though, is whether this was a result of misguided ...
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Can Latin "inde" introduce a temporal clause?
Lines one and two of book 2 of Vergil's Aeneid sparked this question:
Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant
inde toro pater Aeneas sic orsus ab alto:
I had two interpretations. My first ...
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Why "impressa" in Æneid IV.659–60?
So Dido's almost finished her long, drawn-out suicide scene, and we get the lines
Dīxit, et ōs impressa torō, "Moriēmur inultae,
sed moriāmur," ait.
It seems like impressa is being used here as ...
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Allecto's cerulean hair in *Æneid* VII.346-7
In VII.346-7 of the Æneid, when Juno sics Allecto on Amata, we have
Hic dea cæruleís únum dé crínibus anguem
Conjicit inque sinum præcordia ad intima subdit.
Allecto's … blue hair? Hunh?...
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