463When the seer had thus spoken with friendly lips, he next orders gifts heavy with gold and carved ivory to be carried to the ships, and stows in the hulls massive silver and cauldrons of Dodona, a breastplate linked with hooks and triple-woven with gold, and the cone of a splendid helmet with flowing crests, the arms of Neoptolemus; 469there are gifts of his own for my father too. 470He adds horses, and he adds guides; 471he makes up our crews of oarsmen; 471at the same time he equips my comrades with arms.
Lectitō › Vergil › Aeneid, Book 3
Vergil · Aeneid III
Aeneid 3.463–471
Helenus' parting gifts
Read the Latin itself: tap any word for its meaning and grammar, save words to review, and keep your place.
Read in LectitōAdvertisement
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.