Aen. 10.185Nōn ego tē, Ligurum ductor fortissimē bellō,
trānsierim, Cinyre, et paucīs comitāte Cupavō,
cuius olōrīnae surgunt dē vertice pennae,
crīmen, Amor, vestrum fōrmaeque īnsigne paternae.I would not pass you by, Cinyras, bravest leader of the Ligurians in war, nor you, Cupavo, attended by few, from whose crest rise swan's feathers, a reproach to you, Love, and to your mother, and the emblem of his father's shape. Aen. 10.189Namque ferunt lūctū Cycnum Phaethontis amātī,
190pōpuleās inter frondēs umbramque sorōrum
dum canit et maestum Mūsa sōlātur amōrem,
canentem mollī plūmā dūxisse senectam,
linquentem terrās et sīdera vōce sequentem.For they say that Cycnus, in grief for his beloved Phaethon, while he sang among the poplar leaves, the shade of his sisters, and consoled his sad love with music, drew on a white old age of soft plumage, leaving the earth and following the stars with his voice. Aen. 10.194Fīlius, aequālīs comitātus classe catervās,
195ingentem remīs Centaurum prōmovet: ille
īnstat aquae saxumque undīs immāne minātur
arduus et longā sulcat maria alta carīnā.His son, escorting bands of his own age with his fleet, drives the huge Centaur on with oars: it bears down on the water and, towering, threatens the waves with a huge rock, and furrows the deep sea with its long keel.
Lectitō › Vergil › Aeneid, Book 10 › Aeneid 10.185–197
Vergil · Aeneid X
Aeneid 10.185–197
Cinyras, Cupavo and Cycnus
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| nōn, adv. | not |
| ego, meī, pers. pron. | I |
| tū, tuī, pers. pron. | thou, you |
| ductor, -ōris m. | leader, guide |
| fortiter, adv. | bravely |
| bellum, -ī, n. | war |
| trānseō, -īre, -iī, -itus | go across or over, cross |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| paucī, -ae, -a, plur. adj. | few |
| comitor, -ārī, -ātus sum | accompany, follow |
| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
| olōrīnus, -a, -um | of a swan, swan's |
| surgō, -ere, surrēxī, surrēctus | rise, get up, stand up |
| dē, prep, with abl. | down from, from, out of; about, concerning, of |
| vertex, -icis m. | top of the head, crown; summit |
| penna, -ae f. | feather; (pl.) wings |
| crīmen, -inis n. | charge, accusation; crime |
| amor, -ōris, m. | love |
| vester, -tra, -trum | your |
| fōrma, -ae, f. | form, appearance; beauty |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| īnsigne, -is n. | badge, mark, decoration |
| paternus, -a, -um | of a father, a father's |
| namque, conj. | for |
| ferō, ferre, tulī, lātus | bear, bring |
| lūctus, -ūs m. | grief, mourning |
| cycnus, -ī m. | swan |
| amō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | love |
| pōpuleus, -a, -um | of the poplar, poplar- |
| inter, prep, with acc. | among, between |
| frōns, frondis f. | leafy branch, foliage |
| umbra, -ae, f. | shadow, shade |
| soror, -ōris, f. | sister |
| dum, conj. | while, as; as long as; until |
| canō, -ere, cecinī, cantus | sing; of a trumpet: sound (receptuī canere: sound the retreat) |
| maestus, -a, -um | sad, dejected, gloomy |
| sōlor, -ārī, -ātus sum | comfort, console; relieve |
| caneō, -ēre, canuī | be white, be grey (of hair or of olive leaves) |
| mollis, -e | soft, weak |
| plūma, -ae f. | feather, down |
| dūcō, dūcere, dūxī, ductus | lead; make, dig; with or without in mātrimōnium, marry |
| senecta, -ae f. | old age (poetic) |
| linquō, -ere, līquī | leave |
| terra, -ae, f. | land, earth |
| sīdus, -eris n. | star, constellation |
| vōx, vōcis, f. | voice; word |
| sequor, sequī, secūtus | follow |
| fīlius, -ī, m. | son |
| aequālis, -e | equal; of the same age |
| classis, -is f. | fleet |
| caterva, -ae f. | crowd, band, troop |
| ingēns, -gentis, adj. | huge, vast |
| rēmus, -ī, m. | oar |
| centaurus, -ī, m. | centaur |
| prōmoveō, -ēre, -mōvī, -mōtum | move forward |
| ille, illa, illud, dem. pron. | that; he, she, it, they; ille ... hīc, see hīc |
| īnstō, -āre, -stitī | press on; be at hand |
| aqua, -ae, f. | water |
| saxum, -ī, n. | rock, stone |
| unda, -ae, f. | wave |
| immānis, -e | huge, enormous; savage |
| minor, -ārī, -ātus sum | threaten (someone: dat.; with something: abl.) |
| arduus, -a, -um | steep, difficult |
| longus, -a, -um | long; tedious |
| sulcō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | furrow, plough; cut through (the sea) |
| mare, maris, n. | sea |
| altus, -a, -um | high, deep; altum, -ī, n., the deep |
| carīna, -ae f. | keel; hull |
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.