Aen. 10.163Pandite nunc Helicōna, deae, cantūsque movēte,
quae manus intereā Tuscīs comitētur ab ōrīs
165Aenēān armetque ratēs pelagōque vehātur.Now throw open Helicon, goddesses, and raise your songs: what band meanwhile accompanies Aeneas from the Tuscan shores, arms his ships and rides the sea.
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Vergil · Aeneid X
Aeneid 10.163–165
Invocation to the Muses
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| pandō, -ere, pandī, passum | spread out (passīs manibus: with hands outstretched) |
| nunc, adv. | now |
| dea, -ae f. | goddess |
| cantus, -ūs, m. | singing, song |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| moveō, movēre, mōvī, mōtus | move |
| quī, quae, quod, interrog. pron. adj. | what? |
| manus, -ūs, f. | hand |
| intereā, adv. | in the meantime, meanwhile |
| Tuscus, -a, -um | Etruscan, Tuscan; Tuscus amnis: the Tiber |
| comitor, -ārī, -ātus sum | accompany, follow |
| ā, ab (prep. + abl.) | away from, from; by (ā only before consonants) |
| ōra, -ae f. | coast, shore |
| armō, -āre, -āvi, -ātus | arm, equip |
| ratis, -is f. | raft |
| pelagus, -ī n. | the sea, the open sea |
| vehō, vehere, vexī, vectus | carry |
Vergil, Aeneid X. Latin text: J. B. Greenough, The Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Virgil (Boston, 1881), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.