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Meaning of "virō" in description of Lavinia
On p. 29 of Roma Aeterna by Hans Ørberg, book II of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, is this passage from a simplified Latin, solūtīs versibus (prose) rendering of Book II of the Aeneid:
Faunō mortuō,...
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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 ...
