Aeneid 9.446–449

The poet's tribute

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Aen. 9.446Fortūnātī ambō!Fortunate pair! Aen. 9.446Sīquid mea carmina possunt,
nūlla diēs umquam memorī vōs eximet aevō,
dum domus Aenēae Capitōlī immōbile saxum
accolet imperiumque pater Rōmānus habēbit.If my songs have any power, no day shall ever remove you from the memory of time, while the house of Aeneas dwells by the immovable rock of the Capitol and the Roman father holds his sovereignty.

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Latin vocabulary for this passage (23 words)

fortūnātus, -a, -um	lucky, fortunate, prosperous
ambō, -ae, -ō	both
sī quis, sī qua, sī quid	if anyone, if any (sī + the indefinite quis)
meus, -a, -um	my, mine
carmen, -minis, n.	song, charm
possum, posse, potuī	be able, have power, can
nūllus, -a, -um	not any, none, no
diēs, -ēī, m. and f.	day
umquam, adv.	ever
memor, -oris	mindful, remembering (+ gen.)
vōs	plur. of tū
eximō, -ere, -ēmī, -ēmptus	take away, remove; use up (a day)
aevum, -ī n.	age, lifetime; old age
dum, conj.	while, as; as long as; until
domus, -ūs, f.	house, home
immōbilis (inmōbilis), -e	motionless, immovable
saxum, -ī, n.	rock, stone
accolō (adcolō), -ere, -coluī, -cultus	live near, dwell beside
imperium, -ī, n.	command; sway, rule
que, enclitic conj.	and
pater, patris, m.	father
Rōmānus, -a, -um	Roman
habeō, -ēre, -uī, -itus	have, hold; consider

Vergil, Aeneid IX. 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.