Aen. 7.435Hīc iuvenis vātem inrīdēns sīc orsa vicissim
ōre refert: Classīs invectās Thybridis undam
nōn, ut rēre, meās effūgit nūntius aurīs.At 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. Aen. 7.438Nē tantōs mihi finge metūs;Do not invent such fears for me; Aen. 7.438nec rēgia Iūnō
inmemor est nostrī.nor is royal Juno forgetful of us. Aen. 7.440Sed tē victa sitū vērīque effēta senectūs,
ō māter, cūrīs nēquīquam exercet et arma
rēgum inter falsa vātem formīdine lūdit.But 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. Aen. 7.443Cūra tibi dīvom effigiēs et templa tuērī:
bella virī pācemque gerent, Quīs bella gerenda.Your concern is to look after the images and temples of the gods: men will wage war and make peace, men who must wage war.'
Lectitō › Vergil › Aeneid, Book 7 › Aeneid 7.435–444
Vergil · Aeneid VII
Aeneid 7.435–444
Turnus scorns the old priestess
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Latin vocabulary for this passage (58 words)
| hīc, adv. | here; hereupon |
| iuvenis, -is, m. | young man, youth |
| vātēs, -is m. and f. | prophet, seer, soothsayer |
| inrīdeō, -rīdēre, -rīsī, -rīsus | laugh at, mock |
| sīc, adv. | so, thus |
| ordior, -īrī, orsus sum | begin |
| vicissim (adv.) | in turn |
| ōs, ōris, n. | mouth |
| referō, referre, rettulī, relātus | bring or carry back, return; pedem referre, to draw back, retire, retreat; grātiam referre, see grātia |
| classis, -is f. | fleet |
| invehō, -ere, -vēxī, -vectus | carry in; (pass.) attack (in words): invehī in + acc., to inveigh against |
| unda, -ae, f. | wave |
| nōn, adv. | not |
| ut, conj. | as; when; that; ita ut, as |
| reor, rērī, ratus sum | think, suppose, reckon |
| meus, -a, -um | my, mine |
| effugio, -fugere, -fūgī | flee out or away, escape |
| nūntius, -ī, m. | messenger; message |
| auris, -is, f. | ear |
| nē, adv. | not; nē ... quidem, not ... even; conj., that not, lest |
| tantus, -a, -um | so great or much |
| ego, meī, pers. pron. | I |
| fingō, fingere, finxī, fictus | invent, make up |
| metus, -ūs m. | fear, dread |
| neque or nec, conj. | and not, nor; neque ... neque, neither ... nor; neque enim, for ... not |
| rēgius, -a, -um | royal, kingly |
| immemor (inm-), -oris | forgetful, unmindful |
| sum, esse, fuī, futūrus | be |
| nōs | plur. of ego |
| sed, conj. | but |
| tū, tuī, pers. pron. | thou, you |
| vincō, -ere, vīcī, victum | conquer, defeat |
| situs, -a, -um | placed, situated |
| vērum (conj.) | but, but in fact; nōn modo ... vērum etiam: not only ... but also |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| effētus, -a, -um | worn out, exhausted (as by bearing young) |
| senectūs, -tūtis f. | old age |
| ō (interj.) | O! oh! |
| māter, mātris, f. | mother |
| cūra, -ae f. | care, concern (cūrae esse: to be a concern) |
| nēquīquam (adv.) | in vain, without reason |
| exerceō, -ercēre, -ercuī, -ercitus | exercise |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| arma, -ōrum, n. plur. | arms, weapons |
| rēx, rēgis, m. | king |
| inter, prep, with acc. | among, between |
| falsus, -a, -um | feigned, pretended, false |
| formīdō, -inis f. | fear, dread; something to be dreaded |
| lūdō, -ere, lūsī, lūsum | play; mock, deceive |
| dīvus, -ī m. (gen. pl. also dīvum, dīvom) | god |
| effigiēs, -ēī f. | likeness, form, appearance |
| templum, -ī, n. | sanctuary, temple |
| tueor, -ērī, tuitus sum | watch over, protect, defend |
| bellum, -ī, n. | war |
| vir, virī, m. | man |
| pāx, pācis f. | peace |
| gerō, gerere, gessī, gestus | carry, wear; carry on, do |
| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
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.