525You Muses, O Calliope, I pray, inspire me as I sing what slaughter Turnus wrought there then with the sword, what deaths, whom each man sent down to Orcus; 528and unroll with me the vast scroll of the war.
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Vergil · Aeneid IX
Aeneid 9.525–529
Invocation of Calliope
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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.