Vergil: Gerundium to Praeteritum Perfectum Tempus

Vergil's words: for, geminus, adverto

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   et quōrum pars magna fuī. Quis tālia fandō

   and of which I was a great part. Who, telling such a tale,

   etand

   quōrumqui: who, which, what, that

   parspart, region, direction

   magnamagnus: great, large; strong, loud

   fuī.sum: be; exist

   Quiswho?

   tāliatalis: such

   fandōthat may be spoken
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   ipse latet; geminō dēmittunt bracchia mūrō

   the harbor itself lies hidden; towered crags let their arms down

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   “Accipite haec animīs, laetāsque advertite mentēs:

   “Take this in, and turn glad minds to it:

Vergil's words: aurōra, stirps, arduus

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   Aurōram Phaethontis equī iam lūce vehēbant,

   the ninth Dawn on now in a clear light,

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   Tum vōs, ō Tyriī, stirpem et genus omne futūrum

   Then you, Tyrians, hound his stock and all the race to come

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   Dūlichiumque Samēque et Nēritos ardua saxīs.

   and Dulichium and Same, and Neritos steep with rock.

Vergil's words: agito, augurium

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   vōs agitāte fugam:

   you set the flight going:

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   Vestrum hoc augurium, vestrōque in nūmine Trōia est.

   This sign is yours, and Troy is in your keeping.

Aeneid II. 703

Vergil's words: ēn, subdūco, palma

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   Ēn Priamus! Sunt hīc etiam sua praemia laudī;

   Look, Priam! Even here worth has its own rewards;

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   urbem quam statuō vestra est, subdūcite nāvīs;

   The city I am putting up is yours; bring your ships ashore;

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   certa manent, puerī, et palmam movet ōrdine nēmō;

   boys, and no one moves a palm out of its order;

Vergil's words: dehisco, consurgo, tremo

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   tē sine, frāter, erit? Ō quae satis īma dēhīscet

   without you, brother? Oh, what earth will gape deep enough

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   Cōnsurgunt studiīs Teucrī et Trīnacria pūbēs;

   The Teucrians and the young men of Sicily rise up, taking sides;

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   Hic aliud maius miserīs multōque tremendum

   Here another thing, larger and far more to be dreaded,

Vergil's words: prōtinus, fēlix

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   Prōtinus Aenēās celerī certāre sagittā

   At once Aeneas invites any who may care to contend

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   nigram Hiemī pecudem, Zephyrīs fēlīcibus albam.

   a black beast to Storm, a white one to the West Winds that bring luck.

Aeneid I. 461; Aeneid I. 544–545

Aeneid I. 573; Aeneid V. 348–349

Vergil's words: dūro, domitor, perago

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   Dūrāte, et vōsmet rēbus servāte secundīs.”

   Hold out, and keep yourselves for what will come better.”

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   Tum Sāturnius haec domitor maris ēdidit altī:

   Then Saturn's son, the tamer of the deep sea, brought this out:

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   Ergō iter inceptum peragunt fluviōque propinquant.

   So they finish the road they began and come near the river.

Vergil's words: quiesco, incognitus, avidus

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   antīquī Ausoniī, quae vōs fortūna quiētōs

   old Ausonians, what fortune shakes you out of your quiet

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   ārdēbant; sed rēs animōs incognita turbat.

   to join right hands, but the unknown business unsettles them.

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   laetitiāque metūque; avidī coniungere dextrās

   by gladness and by fear; they were burning in their eagerness

Vergil's words: effodio, sēmita

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   hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs

   here others are digging out harbors; here others laying deep

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   Corripuēre viam intereā, quā sēmita mōnstrat.

   Meanwhile they took the road at speed, where the footpath shows it.

Aeneid I. 207; Aeneid I. 418

Aeneid I. 515; Aeneid VI. 384

Vergil's words: spūmo, aestus, arctūrus

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   spūmābat rīpīs: tantus sē nūbibus imber

   over the top of its banks: so great a rainstorm had burst

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   terram inter flūctūs aperit; furit aestus harēnīs.

   and shows the ground between the waves; the surge rages with sand.

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   Arctūrum pluviāsque Hyadas geminōsque Triōnēs;

   Arcturus, the rainy Hyades, and the twin Wains;

Vergil's words: ruīna, spargo, orbis

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   Hoc equidem occāsum Trōiae trīstīsque ruīnās

   With that, I confess, I consoled myself for the fall of Troy

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   Et iam prīma novō spargēbat lūmine terrās

   And already the first light was being scattered new over the lands

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   et, quō sub caelō tandem, quibus orbis in ōrīs

   and teach us at last under what sky, on what coasts of the world

Vergil's words: aetherius, trepidus

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   Tē super aetheriās errāre licentius aurās

   That you should wander too freely over the upper air

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   Hic mihi nesciō quod trepidō male nūmen amīcum

   Here some power, no friend of mine while I panicked,

Aeneid I. 743–744; Aeneid II. 171

Aeneid V. 833–834; Aeneid VIII. 114

Vergil's words: immōtus, āmitto, mollis

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   Illa manent immōta locīs, neque ab ōrdine cēdunt;

   They stay unmoved where they lie, and do not slip out of their sequence;

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   Ūnus erit tantum, āmissum quem gurgite quaerēs;

   There will be one only, whom you will look for, lost in the flood;

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   sōla virī mollīs aditūs et tempora nōrās.

   you alone knew the man's soft approaches and his hours.

Vergil's words: agger, gurges, formīdo

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   aggeribus moerōrum et inundant sanguine fossās.

   earthworks of the ramparts, and the trenches run over with blood.

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   Ūnus erit tantum, āmissum quem gurgite quaerēs;

   There will be one only, whom you will look for, lost in the flood;

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   alta tenent, nec nōn trepidī formīdine portās

   the heights under arms; anxious with dread, they try the gates

Vergil's words: vadum, ratis

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   Tyrrhēnum ad Thybrim et fontis vada sacra Numīcī.

   to Tyrrhenian Tiber and the holy shallows of Numicus' spring.

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   Postquam altum tenuēre ratēs, nec iam amplius ūllae

   After the ships had the deep, and no land

Aeneid I. 33; Aeneid III. 110

Aeneid III. 447; Aeneid IV. 423