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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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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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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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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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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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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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