435At this the young man, mocking the seer, answers her in turn thus: 'The news that a fleet has sailed into the waters of the Tiber has not, as you think, escaped my ears. 438Do not invent such fears for me; 438nor is royal Juno forgetful of us. 440But old age, worn out with decay and barren of truth, troubles you, mother, with cares in vain, and among the wars of kings mocks the seer with false fear. 443Your concern is to look after the images and temples of the gods: men will wage war and make peace, men who must wage war.'
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Vergil · Aeneid VII
Aeneid 7.435–444
Turnus scorns the old priestess
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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.