Aen. 9.450Victōrēs praedā Rutulī spoliīsque potītī
Volcentem exanimum flentēs in castra ferēbant.The victorious Rutulians, possessed of plunder and spoils, were carrying the lifeless Volcens into the camp, weeping. Aen. 9.452Nec minor in castrīs lūctus Rhamnēte repertō
exsanguī et prīmīs ūnā tot caede peremptīs,
Serrānōque Numāque.Nor was the mourning less in the camp, when Rhamnes was found bloodless and so many leaders slain in one slaughter, and Serranus and Numa. Aen. 9.454Ingēns concursus ad ipsa
455corpora sēminecīsque virōs tepidāque recentem
caede locum et plēnōs spūmantī sanguine rīvōs.There is a huge crowding round the bodies themselves and the men half-dead, and the place fresh with warm slaughter, and the streams full of foaming blood. Aen. 9.457Agnōscunt spolia inter sē galeamque nitentem
Messāpī et multō phalerās sūdōre receptās.Among themselves they recognise the spoils, and the shining helmet of Messapus, and the trappings won back with much sweat.
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Vergil · Aeneid IX
Aeneid 9.450–458
The Rutulians mourn their dead
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| victor, -ōris m. | conqueror, victor |
| praeda, -ae, f. | booty, spoil, plunder |
| spolium, -ī n. | spoils, booty (usu. pl.) |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| potior, -īrī, -ītus | become master of, get possession of |
| exanimus, -a, -um | lifeless, dead |
| fleō, -ēre, flēvī, flētum | weep |
| in, prep. with acc. and abl. | with acc.: into, onto, against; with abl.: in, on |
| castra, -ōrum, n. plur. | camp |
| ferō, ferre, tulī, lātus | bear, bring |
| neque or nec, conj. | and not, nor; neque ... neque, neither ... nor; neque enim, for ... not |
| parvus, -a, -um | little, small |
| lūctus, -ūs m. | grief, mourning |
| reperiō, reperīre, repperī, repertus | find, discover |
| exsanguis, -e | bloodless, pale, deathly white |
| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| prīmus, -a, -um | first, foremost |
| ūnā | together, along |
| tot (indecl.) | so many |
| caedēs, -is, f. | cutting down, killing, slaughter |
| perimō, -ere, -ēmī, -ēmptus | destroy, kill |
| ingēns, -gentis, adj. | huge, vast |
| concursus, -ūs m. | a running together, charge |
| ad, prep. with acc. | to, toward; at, near; for |
| ipse, ipsa, ipsum, intensive pron. | self, himself, herself, itself, themselves; often to be rendered by very |
| corpus, corporis, n. | body |
| sēminex, -necis | half-dead |
| vir, virī, m. | man |
| tepidus, -a, -um | warm, lukewarm |
| recēns, -entis | recent, fresh |
| locus, -ī, m., plur. loca, -orum, n. | place, situation |
| plēnus, -a, -um | full |
| spūmō, -āre, -āvī | foam, froth |
| sanguis, sanguinis, m. | blood |
| rīvus, -ī m. | stream, brook |
| agnōscō, -gnōscere, -gnōvī, -gnitus, recognize | |
| inter, prep, with acc. | among, between |
| suī, sibi, sē or sēsē, reflexive pron. | himself, herself, itself, themselves |
| galea, -ae, f. | helmet |
| niteō, -ēre, -uī | shine, glisten, be sleek |
| multus, -a, -um | much, great; plur., many |
| phalerae, -ārum f. pl. | metal discs worn as ornaments, esp. on horses' harness; trappings |
| sūdor, -ōris m. | sweat; toil |
| recipiō, -cipere, -cēpī, -ceptus | take or get back, recover; sē recipere, to betake oneself, withdraw; to collect oneself, recover |
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.