Aen. 5.114Prīma parēs ineunt gravibus certāmina remīs
115quattuor ex omnī dēlēctae classe carīnae.First, four well-matched keels, chosen from the whole fleet, enter the contest with heavy oars. Aen. 5.116Vēlōcem Mnēstheus agit ācrī rēmige Pristim,
mox Ītalus Mnēstheus, genus ā quō nōmine Memmī;Mnestheus drives the swift Pristis with its keen oarsmen, Mnestheus soon to be Italian, from whose name comes the clan of Memmius; Aen. 5.118ingentemque Gyās ingentī mōle Chimaeram,
urbis opus, triplicī pūbēs quam Dardana versū
120impellunt, ternō cōnsurgunt ōrdine remī;Gyas drives the huge Chimaera of huge bulk, a city of a ship, which the Dardan youth drive on in three tiers, the oars rising in a triple row; Aen. 5.121Sergestusque, domus tenet ā quō Sergia nōmen,
Centaurō invehitur magnā, Scyllāque Cloanthus
caeruleā, genus unde tibi, Rōmāne Cluentī.Sergestus, from whom the Sergian house takes its name, rides in the great Centaur, and Cloanthus in the sea-blue Scylla, from whom comes your family, Roman Cluentius.
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Vergil · Aeneid V
Aeneid 5.114–123
Four ships enter the race
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| prīmus, -a, -um | first, foremost |
| pār, paris | equal |
| ineō, -īre, -iī, -itus | go into, enter; adopt |
| gravis, -e | heavy; severe, grievous, serious |
| certāmen, -minis, n. | struggle, contest |
| rēmus, -ī, m. | oar |
| quattuor, indecl. adj. | four |
| ex, ē (prep. + abl.) | out of, from; of (ē only before consonants) |
| omnis, -e | all, every |
| dēligō, -ligere, -lēgī, -lēctus | choose out, choose, select |
| classis, -is f. | fleet |
| carīna, -ae f. | keel; hull |
| vēlōx, vēlōcis | swift, fast |
| agō, agere, ēgī, āctus | drive; do; pass, lead; grātiās agere, see grātia |
| ācer, ācris, ācre | sharp, shrill |
| rēmex, -igis m. | rower |
| pristis, -is f. | sea monster, whale; (name of a ship) the Pristis |
| mox, adv. | soon |
| Ītalus, -a, -um | Italian |
| genus, generis, n. | kind, nature |
| ā, ab (prep. + abl.) | away from, from; by (ā only before consonants) |
| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
| nōmen, -minis, n. | name (that by which one is known) |
| ingēns, -gentis, adj. | huge, vast |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| mōlēs, -is f. | mass; dam, breakwater |
| urbs, urbis, f. | city |
| opus, operis, n. | work, task |
| triplex, -icis | threefold, triple |
| pūbēs, -eris | adult, grown-up (of men of military age) |
| Dardanus, -a, -um | Dardanian, Trojan |
| versus, -ūs m. | line (of writing), verse |
| impellō, -pellere, -pulī, -pulsus | drive or urge on, incite, urge |
| ternī, -ae, -a | three each, three at a time |
| cōnsurgō, -ere, -surrēxī, -surrēctus | rise together, stand up |
| ōrdō, ōrdinis, m. | arrangement, order, rank; ex ōrdine, in order |
| domus, -ūs, f. | house, home |
| teneō, -ēre, -uī, -tus | hold, keep; hold back, restrain, stop |
| Sergius, -ī m. | Sergius, Roman family name; Sergius Paulus, proconsul of Cyprus; (adj.) of the Sergii |
| centaurus, -ī, m. | centaur |
| invehō, -ere, -vēxī, -vectus | carry in; (pass.) attack (in words): invehī in + acc., to inveigh against |
| magnus, -a, -um | large, big, great, mighty; loud |
| caeruleus, -a, -um | dark blue |
| unde, adv. | whence |
| tū, tuī, pers. pron. | thou, you |
| Rōmānus, -a, -um | Roman |
Vergil, Aeneid V. 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.