13Some way off lies a land of Mars, inhabited, with vast plains — Thracians plough it — once ruled by fierce Lycurgus, Troy's ancient friend and host, its Penates allied with ours, while Fortune lasted. 16Hither I am borne, and on the curving shore I lay out my first walls, setting out under unkind fates, and I fashion the name Aeneadae from my own name.
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Vergil · Aeneid III
Aeneid 3.13–18
A first city in Thrace
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Vergil, Aeneid III. 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.