Aen. 7.733Nec tū carminibus nostrīs indictus abībis,
Oebale, quem generāsse Telōn Sēbēthide nymphā
735fertur, Tēleboum Capreās cum regna tenēret,
iam senior;Nor 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; Aen. 7.736patriīs sed nōn et fīlius arvīs
contentus lātē iam tum diciōne premēbat
Sarrastīs populōs et quae rigat aequora Sarnus
quīque Rufrās Batulumque tenent atque arva Celemnae
740et quōs māliferae dēspectant moenia Abellae,
Teutonicō rītū solitī torquēre cateiās,
tegmina Quīs capitum raptus dē sūbere cortex,
aerātaeque micant peltae, micat aereus ēnsis.but 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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| neque or nec, conj. | and not, nor; neque ... neque, neither ... nor; neque enim, for ... not |
| tū, tuī, pers. pron. | thou, you |
| carmen, -minis, n. | song, charm |
| noster, -tra, -trum | our |
| indīcō, -ere, -dīxī, -dictum | proclaim, call (a meeting) |
| abeō, -īre, -iī, -itūrus | go away, depart |
| quī, quae, quod, rel. pron. | who, which |
| generō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | beget, produce |
| Sēbēthis, -idis (f.) | of the Sebethus, a river near Naples |
| nympha, -ae, f. | nymph |
| ferō, ferre, tulī, lātus | bear, bring |
| cum, conj. | when, while, after; since; although |
| regnum, -ī, n. | royal power, rule, throne; kingdom, realm |
| teneō, -ēre, -uī, -tus | hold, keep; hold back, restrain, stop |
| iam, adv. | now, already |
| senior, -ōris m. | elder; seniores: the elders (of the people) |
| patrius, -a, -um | of one's fathers, ancestral |
| sed, conj. | but |
| nōn, adv. | not |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| fīlius, -ī, m. | son |
| arvum, -ī n. | ploughed field, field |
| contentus, -a, -um | content, satisfied (+ abl.) |
| lātē | widely |
| tum, adv. | then, at that time |
| diciō, -ōnis f. | power, rule, control |
| premō, premere, pressī, pressus | press, check, restrain |
| populus, -ī m. | people, nation |
| rigō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | water, wet |
| aequor, -oris n. | level surface; the sea |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| atque, ac (conj.) | and; after comparisons: as, than (ac only before consonants) |
| mālifer, -era, -erum | apple-bearing |
| dēspectō, -āre | look down on |
| moenia, -ium, n. plur. | walls |
| Teutonicus, -a, -um | Teutonic, Germanic |
| rītus, -ūs m. | rite, ceremony; custom, manner |
| soleō, -ēre, solitus sum | be accustomed, usually do |
| torqueō, torquēre, torsī, tortus | turn |
| cateia, -ae f. | a Gallic or Germanic throwing club |
| tegimen (tegumen), -inis n. | covering, protection |
| caput, capitis, n. | head |
| rapiō, -ere, -uī, -tus | seize, snatch |
| dē, prep, with abl. | down from, from, out of; about, concerning, of |
| sūber, -eris n. | cork-oak; cork |
| cortex, -icis m. | bark |
| aerātus, -a, -um | covered or fitted with bronze |
| micō, -āre, -uī | flash, glitter |
| pelta, -ae f. | small crescent-shaped shield |
| aereus, -a, -um | of bronze |
| ēnsis, -is m. | sword (a poetic word) |
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.