Aen. 7.641Pandite nunc Helicōna, deae, cantūsque movēte,
quī bellō excitī rēgēs, quae quemque secūtae
complērint campōs aciēs, quibus Ītala iam tum
flōruerit terra alma virīs, quibus ārserit armīs.Open 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. Aen. 7.645Et meministis enim, dīvae, et memorāre potestis:
ad nōs vix tenuis fāmae perlābitur aura.For 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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| pandō, -ere, pandī, passum | spread out (passīs manibus: with hands outstretched) |
| nunc, adv. | now |
| dea, -ae f. | goddess |
| cantus, -ūs, m. | singing, song |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| moveō, movēre, mōvī, mōtus | move |
| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
| bellum, -ī, n. | war |
| exciō, -īre, -cīvī, -citus | rouse, stir up; summon |
| rēx, rēgis, m. | king |
| quī, quae, quod, interrog. pron. adj. | what? |
| quisque, quaeque, quidque, indef. pron. | each |
| sequor, sequī, secūtus | follow |
| compleō, -plēre, -plēvī, -plētus | fill full, fill up |
| campus, -ī, m. | plain, field |
| aciēs, -ēī, f. | line of battle |
| Ītalus, -a, -um | Italian |
| iam, adv. | now, already |
| tum, adv. | then, at that time |
| flōreō, -ēre, -uī | flourish, be prosperous |
| terra, -ae, f. | land, earth |
| almus, -a, -um | nourishing, kindly |
| vir, virī, m. | man |
| ārdeō, ārdēre, ārsī, ārsus | be on fire, burn |
| arma, -ōrum, n. plur. | arms, weapons |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| meminī, meminisse | remember |
| enim, conj. | for |
| dīva, -ae f. | goddess |
| memorō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | remind of, mention |
| possum, posse, potuī | be able, have power, can |
| ad, prep. with acc. | to, toward; at, near; for |
| nōs | plur. of ego |
| vix, adv. | with difficulty, scarcely, hardly, barely |
| tenuis, -e | thin |
| fāma, -ae, f. | report, rumor |
| perlābor, -ī, -lāpsus sum | glide over |
| aura, -ae, f. | air, breeze |
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.