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Vergil · Aeneid VII

Aeneid 7.733–743

Oebalus of Capreae

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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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Latin vocabulary for this passage (51 words)
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, -trumour
indīcō, -ere, -dīxī, -dictumproclaim, call (a meeting)
abeō, -īre, -iī, -itūrusgo away, depart
quī, quae, quod, rel. pron.who, which
generō, -āre, -āvī, -ātusbeget, produce
Sēbēthis, -idis (f.)of the Sebethus, a river near Naples
nympha, -ae, f.nymph
ferō, ferre, tulī, lātusbear, bring
cum, conj.when, while, after; since; although
regnum, -ī, n.royal power, rule, throne; kingdom, realm
teneō, -ēre, -uī, -tushold, keep; hold back, restrain, stop
iam, adv.now, already
senior, -ōris m.elder; seniores: the elders (of the people)
patrius, -a, -umof 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, -umcontent, satisfied (+ abl.)
lātēwidely
tum, adv.then, at that time
diciō, -ōnis f.power, rule, control
premō, premere, pressī, pressuspress, check, restrain
populus, -ī m.people, nation
rigō, -āre, -āvī, -ātuswater, 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, -erumapple-bearing
dēspectō, -ārelook down on
moenia, -ium, n. plur.walls
Teutonicus, -a, -umTeutonic, Germanic
rītus, -ūs m.rite, ceremony; custom, manner
soleō, -ēre, solitus sumbe accustomed, usually do
torqueō, torquēre, torsī, tortusturn
cateia, -ae f.a Gallic or Germanic throwing club
tegimen (tegumen), -inis n.covering, protection
caput, capitis, n.head
rapiō, -ere, -uī, -tusseize, 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, -umcovered or fitted with bronze
micō, -āre, -uīflash, glitter
pelta, -ae f.small crescent-shaped shield
aereus, -a, -umof 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.