678Nor was the founder of the city of Praeneste absent, the king whom every age has believed was born to Vulcan among the country herds and found on the hearth, Caeculus. 681A rustic legion accompanies him far and wide: the men who live in lofty Praeneste, and in the fields of Gabine Juno, and by the cold Anio, and among the Hernican rocks dewy with streams, those whom rich Anagnia feeds, and you, father Amasenus. 685Not all of them have arms, nor do shields or chariots clang: the greatest part sling bullets of grey lead, some carry two javelins in their hand, and have tawny caps of wolfskin as covering for their heads; they set the print of the left foot bare, a rawhide boot covers the other.
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Vergil · Aeneid VII
Aeneid 7.678–690
Caeculus of Praeneste
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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.