647First to enter the war, fierce from the Tyrrhenian shores, is Mezentius, scorner of the gods, and he arms his columns. 649Beside him is his son Lausus, than whom none was more handsome, except for the body of Laurentine Turnus; Lausus, tamer of horses and conqueror of wild beasts, leads a thousand men who followed him in vain from the city of Agylla, worthy to be happier in his father's rule, and to have had a father who was not Mezentius.
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Vergil · Aeneid VII
Aeneid 7.647–654
Mezentius and Lausus
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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.