641Open Helicon now, goddesses, and stir up your song: what kings were roused to war, what battle lines followed each and filled the plains, with what men even then the kindly land of Italy flowered, with what arms it blazed. 645For you remember, goddesses, and can tell it: to us scarcely a faint breath of the story flows down.
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Vergil · Aeneid VII
Aeneid 7.641–646
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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.