Aen. 3.84Templa deī saxō venerābar strūcta vetustō:
85Dā propriam, Thymbraee, domum;I was venerating the temple of the god, built of ancient stone: 'Grant us a home of our own, Thymbraean; Aen. 3.85dā moenia fessīs
et genus et mānsūram urbem;grant walls to the weary, and offspring, and a city that will endure; Aen. 3.86servā altera Troiae
Pergama, reliquiās Danaum atque immītis Achillī.preserve a second Pergamum for Troy, the remnant left by the Danaans and pitiless Achilles. Aen. 3.88Quem sequimur?Whom are we to follow? Aen. 3.88Quōvē īre iubēs?Or where do you bid us go? Aen. 3.88Ubi pōnere sēdēs?Where are we to settle? Aen. 3.89Dā, pater, augurium, atque animīs inlābere nostrīs.Grant us an omen, father, and glide into our hearts.'
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Vergil · Aeneid III
Aeneid 3.84–89
Aeneas prays to Apollo
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| templum, -ī, n. | sanctuary, temple |
| deus, -ī, m. | god |
| saxum, -ī, n. | rock, stone |
| veneror, -ārī, -ātus sum | worship, revere |
| struō, -ere, strūxī, strūctus | build, construct; arrange |
| vetustus, -a, -um | old, ancient, long-established |
| dō, dare, dedī, datus | give |
| proprius, -a, -um | one's own, private; characteristic (of) |
| domus, -ūs, f. | house, home |
| moenia, -ium, n. plur. | walls |
| fessus, -a, -um | exhausted, worn out, weary |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| genus, generis, n. | kind, nature |
| maneō, manēre, mānsī, mānsus | remain |
| urbs, urbis, f. | city |
| servō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | save, preserve |
| alter, -era, -erum | one or the other (of two); another, second |
| reliquiae, -ārum f. pl. | remains, what is left over, leftovers |
| atque, ac (conj.) | and; after comparisons: as, than (ac only before consonants) |
| immītis, -e | harsh, pitiless |
| quis, quid, interrog. pron. | who? which? what? |
| sequor, sequī, secūtus | follow |
| quō, adv. | to what place? whither? to which place, whither; for which reason, wherefore, therefore; quō ūsque, till when? how long? |
| eō, īre, iī, itus | go |
| iubeō, iubēre, iussī, iussus | bid, order, command |
| ubi, adv. | where; conj., when |
| pōnō, pōnere, posuī, positus | place, put; pōnī with in and abl., to be placed in, rest or depend on |
| sēdēs, -is, f. | seat, abode |
| pater, patris, m. | father |
| augurium, -ī n. | augury, the reading of signs from birds; omen |
| animus, -ī, m. | mind; heart; spirit, courage |
| illābor, -ī, -lāpsus sum | glide in, slip into |
| noster, -tra, -trum | our |
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.