733Nor shall you go away unsung in our verses, Oebalus, whom Telon is said to have fathered by the nymph Sebethis, when he held Capreae, the realm of the Teleboae, already in his old age; 736but the son, not content with his father's fields, was even then holding under his sway far and wide the Sarrastian peoples and the plains which the Sarnus waters, and those who hold Rufrae and Batulum and the fields of Celemna, and those on whom the walls of apple-bearing Abella look down, accustomed to hurl darts in the Teutonic way; their head-coverings are bark stripped from the cork tree, their bronze shields flash, and flashes too the bronze sword.
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Vergil · Aeneid VII
Aeneid 7.733–743
Oebalus of Capreae
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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.