Aen. 3.13Terra procul vāstīs colitur Māvortia campīs,
Thrācēs arant, ācrī quondam regnāta Lycurgō,
15hospitium antīquum Troiae sociīque Penātēs,
dum Fortūna fuit.Some 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. Aen. 3.16Feror hūc, et lītore curvō
moenia prīma locō, fātīs ingressus inīquīs,
Aeneadāsque meō nōmen dē nōmine fingō.Hither 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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| terra, -ae, f. | land, earth |
| procul, adv. | at or from a distance, far |
| vāstus, -a, -um | waste, huge, enormous, vast |
| colō, colere, coluī, cultus | till, cultivate; inhabit; worship |
| Māvortius, -a, -um | of Mars (Māvors, an old name of the god) |
| campus, -ī, m. | plain, field |
| arō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | plow |
| ācer, ācris, ācre | sharp, shrill |
| quondam (adv.) | once, formerly, at one time |
| regnō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | reign, rule |
| hospitium, -ī, n. | hospitality |
| antīquus, -a, -um | ancient |
| socius, -ī, m. | companion, comrade, ally |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| dum, conj. | while, as; as long as; until |
| fortūna, -ae, f. | fortune |
| sum, esse, fuī, futūrus | be |
| ferō, ferre, tulī, lātus | bear, bring |
| hūc, adv. | to this place, hither |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| lītus, lītoris, n. | shore |
| curvus, -a, -um | curved, bent |
| moenia, -ium, n. plur. | walls |
| prīmus, -a, -um | first, foremost |
| locus, -ī, m., plur. loca, -orum, n. | place, situation |
| fātum, -ī, n. | destiny, fate |
| ingredior, -ī, ingressus sum | go into, enter |
| inīquus, -a, -um | uneven; unfair |
| meus, -a, -um | my, mine |
| nōmen, -minis, n. | name (that by which one is known) |
| dē, prep, with abl. | down from, from, out of; about, concerning, of |
| fingō, fingere, finxī, fictus | invent, make up |
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.