Aen. 10.747Caedicus Alcathoum obtruncat, Sacrātor Hydaspēn
Partheniumque Rapō et praedūrum vīribus Orsēn,
Messāpus Croniumque Lycāoniumque Erichaetēn,
750illum īnfrēnis equī lāpsū tellūre iacentem,
hunc peditem.Caedicus cuts down Alcathous, Sacrator Hydaspes, Rapo Parthenius and Orses, very hard of strength, Messapus Cronius and Erichaetes son of Lycaon, the one lying on the ground from a fall of his unbridled horse, the other on foot. Aen. 10.751Pedes et Lycius prōcesserat Agis,
quem tamen haud expers Valerus virtūtis avītae
dēicit;Lycian Agis too had come forward on foot, whom nonetheless Valerus, not lacking his ancestral courage, throws down; Aen. 10.753at Thronium Salius Saliumque Nealcēs
īnsidiīs, iaculō et longē fallente sagittā.but Salius fells Thronius, and Nealces Salius, by ambush, with a javelin and an arrow deceiving from afar.
Lectitō › Vergil › Aeneid, Book 10 › Aeneid 10.747–754
Vergil · Aeneid X
Aeneid 10.747–754
Slaughter on both sides
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| obtruncō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | cut down, kill |
| Parthenius, -ī m. | Parthenius, a Trojan; (adj.) Parthenius, -a, -um: of Mount Parthenius in Arcadia |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| praedūrus, -a, -um | very hard, very tough |
| vīs, vīs, f. | violence, force; virtue, potency, efficacy; plur. vīrēs, -ium, strength; omnibus vīribus, with all one's strength, with might and main |
| ille, illa, illud, dem. pron. | that; he, she, it, they; ille ... hīc, see hīc |
| īnfrēnus, -a, -um | unbridled, riding without a bridle |
| equus, -ī, m. | horse |
| lāpsus, -ūs m. | gliding, sliding movement; a fall |
| tellūs, -ūris f. | earth, land (poetic) |
| iaceō, -ēre, -uī | lie, be prostrate |
| hic, haec, hoc, dem. pron. | this; ille ... hīc, that ... this, the former ... the latter |
| pedes, peditis m. | foot soldier |
| Lycius, -a, -um | Lycian, of Lycia in south-west Asia Minor (Lyciae sortēs: Apollo's oracles at Patara) |
| prōcēdō, -ere, -cessī, -cessum | go forward, advance |
| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
| tamen, adv. | however, yet, nevertheless |
| haud, adv. | not at all, by no means, not |
| expers, -pertis | having no share in, without (+ gen. or abl.) |
| virtūs, -tūtis, f. | manliness, courage, bravery |
| avītus, -a, -um | of a grandfather, ancestral, inherited |
| dēiciō, -icere, -iēcī, -iectus | throw down, cast, drive out of one's course |
| at, conj. | but |
| īnsidiae, -ārum, f. plur. | ambush; plot, stratagem |
| iaculum, -ī n. | javelin, dart |
| longē, adv. | far |
| fallō, fallere, fefellī, falsus | deceive |
| sagitta, -ae, f. | arrow |
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.