12/22/2023 0 Comments Surgere fluctus excitari translationProgeniem sed enim Troiano a sanguine duci audierat, Tyrias olim quae verteret arces 20 hinc populum late regem belloque superbum venturum excidio Libyae: sic volvere Parcas. Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni, Karthago, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe ostia, dives opum studiisque asperrima belli quam Iuno fertur terris magis omnibus unam 15 posthabita coluisse Samo hic illius arma, hic currus fuit hoc regnum dea gentibus esse, si qua fata sinant, iam tum tenditque fovetque. of possession pietas - a sense of duty/responsibility to the gods family country Characteristics of Aeneas: insignem pietate - loyal profugus fato - driven by fate passus + iactatus - forced to suffer Characteristics of Juno: memorem - mindful/vindictive saevae - cruel iram - full of anger dolens - grieving laeso - offended saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram - synchesis et - connective joining iactatus and passus musa - Calliope numine laeso - ablative absolute animis - dat. of place where superum - archaic form of the gen. refers to virum arma - metonymy for deeds of arms/wars referring to the wars in which Aeneas engaged/ allusion to the Illiad virum - Aeneas/ allusion to the odyssey/Homer Lavinium - the city in Italy that Aeneas is destined to found named after Lavinia, the name of the Italian princess whom Aeneas eventually married terris, alto - abl. Are there such great angers to divine minds? Muse, recount to me the reasons, with what divine power having been offended or grieving over what did the queen of the gods force a man distinguished by loyalty to undergo so many misfortunes, to encounter so many labors. I sing of arms and the man, who first, exiled by fate, came from the shores of Troy to Italy and the Lavinian shores, that man, having been much buffeted both on the lands and on the deep sea by the force of the gods above, on account of the unforgetting wrath of cruel Juno: and also having suffered many things in war until he founded a city and carried his gods to Latium from where is the Latin race and the Alban fathers and the walls of lofty Rome. Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso, quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores 10 impulerit. Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, 5 inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.
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