Aeneid 7.1–4

The burial of Caieta

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Aen. 7.1Tū quoque lītoribus nostrīs, Aenēia nūtrīx,
aeternam moriēns fāmam, Cāiēta, dedistī;You too, nurse of Aeneas, gave by your death undying fame to our shores, Caieta; Aen. 7.3et nunc servat honōs sēdem tuus ossaque nōmen
Hesperiā in magnā, Sīqua est ea glōria, signat.and even now your honour guards your resting place, and your name marks your bones in great Hesperia, if that is any glory.

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Latin vocabulary for this passage (26 words)

tū, tuī, pers. pron.	thou, you
quoque, adv.	also
lītus, lītoris, n.	shore
noster, -tra, -trum	our
Aenēius, -a, -um	of Aeneas
nūtrīx, -īcis f.	nurse
aeternus, -a, -um	everlasting, eternal
morior, morī, mortuus	die
fāma, -ae, f.	report, rumor
dō, dare, dedī, datus	give
et, conj.	and; et ... et, both ... and
nunc, adv.	now
servō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus	save, preserve
honor, -ōris, m.	honor
sēdēs, -is, f.	seat, abode
tuus, -a, -um	thy, thine, your
ōs, ōris, n.	mouth
que, enclitic conj.	and
nōmen, -minis, n.	name (that by which one is known)
in, prep. with acc. and abl.	with acc.: into, onto, against; with abl.: in, on
magnus, -a, -um	large, big, great, mighty; loud
sī quis, sī qua, sī quid	if anyone, if any (sī + the indefinite quis)
sum, esse, fuī, futūrus	be
is, ea, id, dem. pron.	this, that; he, she, it, they
glōria, -ae, f.	glory
signō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus	mark, seal; certify

Vergil, Aeneid VII. 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.