Aen. 7.647Prīmus init bellum Tyrrhēnīs asper ab ōrīs
contemptor dīvom Mezentius agminaque armat.First to enter the war, fierce from the Tyrrhenian shores, is Mezentius, scorner of the gods, and he arms his columns. Aen. 7.649Fīlius huic iūxtā Lausus, quō pulchrior alter
650nōn fuit exceptō Laurentis corpore Turnī,
Lausus, equum domitor dēbellātorque ferārum,
dūcit Agyllīnā nēquīquam ex urbe secūtōs
mīlle virōs, dignus, patriīs quī laetior esset
imperiīs et cui pater haud Mezentius esset.Beside 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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| prīmus, -a, -um | first, foremost |
| ineō, -īre, -iī, -itus | go into, enter; adopt |
| bellum, -ī, n. | war |
| Tyrrhēnus, -a, -um | Etruscan; mare Tyrrhēnum: the sea west of Italy |
| asper, -era, -erum | rough, harsh; difficult |
| ā, ab (prep. + abl.) | away from, from; by (ā only before consonants) |
| ōra, -ae f. | coast, shore |
| contemptor, -ōris m. | despiser, scorner, one who disdains |
| dīvus, -ī m. (gen. pl. also dīvum, dīvom) | god |
| agmen, -minis, n. | band, column |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| armō, -āre, -āvi, -ātus | arm, equip |
| fīlius, -ī, m. | son |
| hic, haec, hoc, dem. pron. | this; ille ... hīc, that ... this, the former ... the latter |
| iūxtā (adv. and prep. + acc.) | nearby; next to |
| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
| pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum | beautiful |
| alter, -era, -erum | one or the other (of two); another, second |
| nōn, adv. | not |
| sum, esse, fuī, futūrus | be |
| excipiō, -cipere, -cēpī, -ceptus | take out or up, receive, welcome, entertain |
| Laurēns, -entis | of Laurentum, Laurentine (ager Laurēns: the land around Laurentum, on the coast of Latium) |
| corpus, corporis, n. | body |
| equus, -ī, m. | horse |
| domitor, -ōris m. | tamer, breaker (of horses); conqueror |
| dēbellātor, -ōris m. | conqueror, subduer |
| fera, -ae, f. | wild animal, beast |
| dūcō, dūcere, dūxī, ductus | lead; make, dig; with or without in mātrimōnium, marry |
| Agyllīnus, -a, -um | of Agylla (Caere), a town of Etruria |
| nēquīquam (adv.) | in vain, without reason |
| ex, ē (prep. + abl.) | out of, from; of (ē only before consonants) |
| urbs, urbis, f. | city |
| sequor, sequī, secūtus | follow |
| mīlle, indecl. adj. | a thousand; mīlia, -ium, n. plur., thousands; |
| vir, virī, m. | man |
| dignus, -a, -um (+ abl.) | worthy (of), deserving |
| patrius, -a, -um | of one's fathers, ancestral |
| laetus, -a, -um | glad, joyful |
| imperium, -ī, n. | command; sway, rule |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| pater, patris, m. | father |
| haud, adv. | not at all, by no means, not |
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.