276Yet bold Turnus' confidence did not fail him, to seize the shore first and drive the newcomers from the land. 279'What you have longed for in your prayers is here: to break through with the right hand; 280Mars himself is in the hands of men. 280Now let each man remember his wife and his home; now let him renew the great deeds, the glories of our fathers. 282Let us go out to meet them at the water's edge, while they are in disarray and their first steps falter as they land. 284Fortune helps the bold.' So he speaks, and turns over in his mind whom he can lead against them, or to whom he can entrust the besieged walls.
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Vergil · Aeneid X
Aeneid 10.276–286
Turnus rallies his men
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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.