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Vergil · Aeneid X

Aeneid 10.166–184

The Etruscan captains

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Aen. 10.166Massicus aerātā prīnceps secat aequora tigrī:
sub quō mīlle manus iuvenum, quī moenia Clūsī
quīque urbem līquēre Cosās, Quīs tēla sagittae
gōrytīque levēs umerīs et lētifer arcus.
Massicus leads, cutting the waters in the bronze-clad Tiger: under him are a thousand young men, who left the walls of Clusium and the city of Cosae, whose weapons are arrows, light quivers on their shoulders and the deadly bow.
Aen. 10.170Ūnā torvus Abās: huic tōtum īnsignibus armīs
agmen et aurātō fulgēbat Apolline puppis.
With him goes grim Abas: his whole column shone with splendid arms, and his ship with a gilded Apollo.
Aen. 10.172Sescentōs illī dederat Populōnia māter
expertōs bellī iuvenēs, ast Ilva trecentōs
īnsula inexhaustīs Chalybum generōsa metallīs.
To him mother Populonia had given six hundred of her young men, tried in war, and Ilva three hundred, an island rich in the inexhaustible mines of the Chalybes.
Aen. 10.175Tertius ille hominum dīvomque interpres Asīlās,
cui pecudum fībrae, caelī cui sīdera pārent
et linguae volucrum et praesāgī fulminis ignēs,
mīlle rapit dēnsōs aciē atque horrentibus hastīs.
Third, Asilas, that interpreter between men and gods, whom the entrails of beasts obey, and the stars of the sky, and the tongues of birds and the fires of prophetic lightning, sweeps along a thousand men, dense in their ranks and bristling with spears.

Aen. 10.179Hōs pārēre iubent Alphēae ab orīgine Pīsae,
180urbs Etrūsca solō.
These men Pisa orders to obey him, Alphean in origin, a city Etruscan in its soil.
Aen. 10.180Sequitur pulcherrimus Astur,
Astur equō fīdēns et versicolōribus armīs.
Astur follows, most handsome, Astur trusting in his horse and his many-coloured arms.
Aen. 10.182Tercentum adiciunt (mēns omnibus ūna sequendī)
quī Caerete domō, quī sunt Miniōnis in arvīs,
et Pyrgī veterēs intempestaeque Graviscae.
Three hundred more are added (all of one mind to follow), whose home is Caere, who dwell in the fields of the Minio, and ancient Pyrgi and fever-ridden Graviscae.

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Grammar in this passage: ablative absolute ×1, gerunds and gerundives ×1

Latin vocabulary for this passage (83 words)
aerātus, -a, -umcovered or fitted with bronze
prīnceps, -ipisfirst, chief; as noun: leader
secō, -āre, secuī, sectuscut; (of fodder) mow
aequor, -oris n.level surface; the sea
sub, prep. with acc. and abl.under; sub vesperum, towards evening
quī, quae, quod, rel. pron.who, which
mīlle, indecl. adj.a thousand; mīlia, -ium, n. plur., thousands;
manus, -ūs, f.hand
iuvenis, -is, m.young man, youth
moenia, -ium, n. plur.walls
urbs, urbis, f.city
linquō, -ere, līquīleave
tēlum, -ī, n.missile, spear, weapon
sagitta, -ae, f.arrow
gōrytus, -ī m.quiver
que, enclitic conj.and
levis, -elight, slight
umerus, -ī, m.shoulder
et, conj.and; et ... et, both ... and
lētifer, -era, -erumdeadly, death-bringing
arcus, -ūs, m.bow
ūnātogether, along
torvus, -a, -umgrim, fierce, glaring
hic, haec, hoc, dem. pron.this; ille ... hīc, that ... this, the former ... the latter
tōtus, -a, -umall the, the whole or entire
īnsignis, -enotable, remarkable
arma, -ōrum, n. plur.arms, weapons
agmen, -minis, n.band, column
aurātus, -a, -umgilded, golden
fulgeō, -ēre, fulsīflash, shine, glitter
puppis, -is f.stern of a ship
sescentī, -ae, -asix hundred
ille, illa, illud, dem. pron.that; he, she, it, they; ille ... hīc, see hīc
dō, dare, dedī, datusgive
māter, mātris, f.mother
experior, -īrī, expertus sumtry, test, experience
bellum, -ī, n.war
ast (conj.)but (older form of at)
trecentī, -ae, -athree hundred
īnsula, -ae, f.island
inexhaustus, -a, -uminexhaustible; unexhausted, unspent
generōsus, -a, -umof good family, well-born
metallum, -ī n.a mine; metal
tertius, -a, -umthird
homō, hominis, m.man
dīvus, -ī m. (gen. pl. also dīvum, dīvom)god
interpres, -pretis m.interpreter
pecus, pecudis, f.head of cattle, beast, sheep, goat
fībra, -ae f.fibre; (pl.) entrails
caelum, -ī, n.heaven, sky
sīdus, -eris n.star, constellation
pāreō, -ēre, -uīobey
lingua, -ae f.tongue; language
volucris, -is, f.bird
praesāgus, -a, -umforeboding, prophetic
fulmen, -inis n.thunderbolt, lightning
ignis, -is, m.fire
rapiō, -ere, -uī, -tusseize, snatch
dēnsus, -a, -umthick
aciēs, -ēī, f.line of battle
atque, ac (conj.)and; after comparisons: as, than (ac only before consonants)
horreō, -ēre, horruīshudder at, dread
hasta, -ae f.spear
iubeō, iubēre, iussī, iussusbid, order, command
ā, ab (prep. + abl.)away from, from; by (ā only before consonants)
orīgō, -inis f.origin, beginning, source; ancestry
Etrūscus, -a, -umEtruscan
sōlum (adv.); solum, -ī n.only (nōn sōlum … sed etiam: not only … but also); ground, soil
sequor, sequī, secūtusfollow
pulcher, pulchra, pulchrumbeautiful
equus, -ī, m.horse
fīdō, -ere, fīsus sumtrust, rely on (+ dat. or abl.); fīdēns, confident, bold
versicolor, -ōrisof changing or varied colours, multicoloured
adiciō, -icere, -iēcī, -iectusthrow to, throw, hurl
mēns, mentis f.mind, spirit
omnis, -eall, every
ūnus, -a, -umone; only, alone
domus, -ūs, f.house, home
sum, esse, fuī, futūrusbe
in, prep. with acc. and abl.with acc.: into, onto, against; with abl.: in, on
arvum, -ī n.ploughed field, field
vetus, veterisold, former
intempestus, -a, -umunseasonable; nox intempesta: the dead of night
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.