729Such things he marvels at across the shield of Vulcan, his mother's gift, and, knowing nothing of the events, rejoices in their image, lifting on his shoulder the fame and the fates of his descendants.
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Vergil · Aeneid VIII
Aeneid 8.729–731
Aeneas lifts the shield
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Vergil, Aeneid VIII. 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.