Aen. 9.459Et iam prīma novō spargēbat lūmine terrās
460Tīthōnī croceum linquēns Aurōra cubīle:
iam sōle īnfūsō, iam rēbus lūce retēctīs
Turnus in arma virōs, armīs circumdatus ipse,
suscitat, aerātāsque aciēs in proelia cōgit
quisque suās variīsque acuunt rūmōribus īrās.And now early Dawn, leaving the saffron bed of Tithonus, was sprinkling the earth with new light: now the sun had poured in, now the world was revealed by daylight, and Turnus, himself clad in arms, rouses his men to arms, and each leader marshals his bronze-clad lines for battle, and they whet their anger with various rumours. Aen. 9.465Quīn ipsa arrēctīs (vīsū miserābile) in hastīs
praefīgunt capita et multō clamōre sequuntur
Euryalī et Nīsī.Indeed they fix on raised spears (a pitiful sight) the very heads, and follow with much shouting, of Euryalus and Nisus. Aen. 9.468Aeneadae dūrī mūrōrum in parte sinistrā
opposuēre aciem, nam dextera cingitur amnī,
470ingentīsque tenent fossās et turribus altīs
stant maestī;The hardy Aeneadae have set their battle line against them on the left side of the walls, for the right is bounded by the river, and they hold the huge ditches and stand on the high towers in sorrow; Aen. 9.471simul ōra virum praefīxa movēbant,
nota nimis miserīs ātrōque fluentia tābō.at the same time the men's faces, fixed on spears, moved them, faces all too familiar to the wretched men and dripping with dark gore.
Lectitō › Vergil › Aeneid, Book 9 › Aeneid 9.459–472
Vergil · Aeneid IX
Aeneid 9.459–472
The heads paraded before the walls
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| et, conj. | and; et ... et, both ... and |
| iam, adv. | now, already |
| prīmus, -a, -um | first, foremost |
| novus, -a, -um | new; novissimus, last |
| spargō, spargere, sparsī, sparsus | scatter, sprinkle |
| lūmen, -minis, n. | light |
| terra, -ae, f. | land, earth |
| croceus, -a, -um | saffron-coloured, yellow |
| linquō, -ere, līquī | leave |
| aurōra, -ae f. | dawn |
| cubīle, -is n. | bed, resting place |
| sōl, sōlis, m. | sun |
| īnfundō, -fundere, -fūdī, -fūsus | pour in or upon |
| rēs, reī, f. | thing, matter, affair, circumstance, situation; rē vērā, in truth, in fact, really |
| lūx, lūcis, f. | light |
| retegō, -ere, -tēxī, -tēctum | uncover, reveal |
| in, prep. with acc. and abl. | with acc.: into, onto, against; with abl.: in, on |
| arma, -ōrum, n. plur. | arms, weapons |
| vir, virī, m. | man |
| circumdō, -dare, -dedī, -datus | put around, surround |
| ipse, ipsa, ipsum, intensive pron. | self, himself, herself, itself, themselves; often to be rendered by very |
| suscitō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus | raise up, rouse; raise (the dead) |
| aerātus, -a, -um | covered or fitted with bronze |
| que, enclitic conj. | and |
| aciēs, -ēī, f. | line of battle |
| proelium, -ī, n. | battle, combat; proelium committere, to join battle |
| cōgō, cōgere, coēgī, coāctus | drive together, collect; compel |
| quisque, quaeque, quidque, indef. pron. | each |
| suus, -a, -um | his, her, its, or their own; his, her, its, their |
| varius, -a, -um | various |
| acuō, -ere, acuī, acūtus | sharpen; stimulate |
| rūmor, -ōris m. | rumour, report |
| īra, -ae, f. | anger, wrath |
| quīn, conj. | so that ... not, but that, but |
| arrigō (adrigō), -ere, -rēxī, -rēctus | set upright; rouse, excite |
| videō, vidēre, vīdī, vīsus | see; pass., seem |
| miserābilis, -e | pitiable, wretched |
| hasta, -ae f. | spear |
| praefīgō, -ere, -fīxī, -fīxum | fix in front |
| caput, capitis, n. | head |
| multus, -a, -um | much, great; plur., many |
| clāmor, -ōris, m. | shout, cry |
| sequor, sequī, secūtus | follow |
| dūrus, -a, -um | hard; harsh; difficult |
| mūrus, -ī, m. | wall |
| pars, partis, f. | part, side, direction |
| sinister, -tra, -trum | left |
| oppōnō, -ere, -posuī, -positus | set against, place opposite |
| nam, conj. | for |
| dexter, -tra, -trum | right |
| cingō, cingere, cinxī, cinctus | surround, gird |
| amnis, -is m. | river |
| ingēns, -gentis, adj. | huge, vast |
| teneō, -ēre, -uī, -tus | hold, keep; hold back, restrain, stop |
| fossa, -ae, f. | ditch, trench |
| turris, -is f. | tower; siege tower |
| altus, -a, -um | high, deep; altum, -ī, n., the deep |
| stō, stāre, stetī, status | stand |
| maestus, -a, -um | sad, dejected, gloomy |
| simul, adv. | at the same time; simul atque or ac, as soon as |
| ōs, ōris, n. | mouth |
| moveō, movēre, mōvī, mōtus | move |
| nōtus, -a, -um | known, well-known, famous |
| nimis (adv.) | too much, too |
| miser, misera, miserum | wretched, unhappy |
| āter, ātra, ātrum | black, dark; gloomy |
| fluō, -ere, flūxī | flow |
| tābum, -ī n. | gore, putrid blood; plague |
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.