522There is a valley with a winding curve, fit for trickery and the stratagems of arms, which a flank dark with dense foliage hems in on both sides, where a narrow path leads, and a tight gorge and grudging approaches bring you in. 526Above it, among the look-outs and on the mountain's highest summit, lies an unknown plateau and a safe retreat, whether you wish to meet the fight on right and left, or to stand on the ridges and roll down huge rocks. 530Hither the young man goes by a familiar tract of roads, seized the place, and settled in the treacherous woods.
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Vergil · Aeneid XI
Aeneid 11.522–531
The valley of the ambush
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Vergil, Aeneid XI. 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.