Aeneid 9.525–529

Invocation of Calliope

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Aen. 9.525Vōs, ō Calliopē, precor, adspīrāte canentī,
quās ibi tum ferrō strāgēs, quae fūnera Turnus
ēdiderit, quem quisque virum dēmīserit Orcō;You 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; Aen. 9.528et mēcum ingentīs ōrās ēvolvite bellī,and unroll with me the vast scroll of the war.

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Latin vocabulary for this passage (21 words)

vōs	plur. of tū
ō (interj.)	O! oh!
precor, -ārī, -ātus sum	pray, beg
adspīrō (aspīrō), -āre, -āvī, -ātus	breathe upon; favour, inspire, assist
canō, -ere, cecinī, cantus	sing; of a trumpet: sound (receptuī canere: sound the retreat)
quī, quae, quod, interrog. pron. adj.	what?
ibi, adv.	in that place, there
tum, adv.	then, at that time
ferrum, -ī n.	iron; iron point, sword
strāgēs, -is f.	slaughter, carnage; heap of fallen bodies
fūnus, -eris n.	funeral
ēdō, -dere, -didī, -ditus	put forth, give out, utter
quisque, quaeque, quidque, indef. pron.	each
vir, virī, m.	man
dēmittō, -mittere, -mīsī, -missus	send down, let fall; animōs dēmittere, to lose courage
et, conj.	and; et ... et, both ... and
ego, meī, pers. pron.	I
ingēns, -gentis, adj.	huge, vast
ōra, -ae f.	coast, shore
ēvolvō, -ere, -volvī, -volūtus	roll out, unroll; unfold, relate; disentangle
bellum, -ī, n.	war

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.