750Moreover, from the Marruvian people came a priest, his helmet adorned with foliage and fruitful olive. 752Sent by King Archippus, bravest Umbro, who used to sprinkle sleep with song and hand on the race of vipers and on hydras of foul breath, and soothed their anger and relieved their bites by his art. 756But he was not able to heal the blow of a Dardan spear-point, nor did sleep-bringing songs and herbs sought on the Marsian mountains help him against wounds. 759For you the grove of Angitia wept, for you Fucinus with its glassy water, for you the clear lakes.
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Vergil · Aeneid VII
Aeneid 7.750–760
Umbro, the Marsian priest
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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.