# Prīmus et Secundus Annus, Vergil: Gerundium to Praeteritum Perfectum Tempus

Vergil

Gerundium; Cāsus Ablātivus; Verbum Impersōnāle; Futūrum Perfectum; Praeteritum Perfectum Tempus

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## Vergil's words: for, geminus, adverto

**1** et quōrum pars magna fuī. Quis tālia fandō  
and of which I was a great part. Who, telling such a tale,

**2** ipse latet; geminō dēmittunt bracchia mūrō  
the harbor itself lies hidden; towered crags let their arms down

**3** “Accipite haec animīs, laetāsque advertite mentēs:  
“Take this in, and turn glad minds to it:

## Vergil's words: aurōra, stirps, arduus

**4** Aurōram Phaethontis equī iam lūce vehēbant,  
the ninth Dawn on now in a clear light,

**5** Tum vōs, ō Tyriī, stirpem et genus omne futūrum  
Then you, Tyrians, hound his stock and all the race to come

**6** Dūlichiumque Samēque et Nēritos ardua saxīs.  
and Dulichium and Same, and Neritos steep with rock.

## Vergil's words: agito, augurium

**7** vōs agitāte fugam:  
you set the flight going:

**8** 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

**9** Ēn Priamus! Sunt hīc etiam sua praemia laudī;  
Look, Priam! Even here worth has its own rewards;

**10** urbem quam statuō vestra est, subdūcite nāvīs;  
The city I am putting up is yours; bring your ships ashore;

**11** 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

**12** tē sine, frāter, erit? Ō quae satis īma dēhīscet  
without you, brother? Oh, what earth will gape deep enough

**13** Cōnsurgunt studiīs Teucrī et Trīnacria pūbēs;  
The Teucrians and the young men of Sicily rise up, taking sides;

**14** Hic aliud maius miserīs multōque tremendum  
Here another thing, larger and far more to be dreaded,

## Vergil's words: prōtinus, fēlix

**15** Prōtinus Aenēās celerī certāre sagittā  
At once Aeneas invites any who may care to contend

**16** 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

**17** Dūrāte, et vōsmet rēbus servāte secundīs.”  
Hold out, and keep yourselves for what will come better.”

**18** Tum Sāturnius haec domitor maris ēdidit altī:  
Then Saturn's son, the tamer of the deep sea, brought this out:

**19** Ergō iter inceptum peragunt fluviōque propinquant.  
So they finish the road they began and come near the river.

## Vergil's words: quiesco, incognitus, avidus

**20** antīquī Ausoniī, quae vōs fortūna quiētōs  
old Ausonians, what fortune shakes you out of your quiet

**21** ārdēbant; sed rēs animōs incognita turbat.  
to join right hands, but the unknown business unsettles them.

**22** laetitiāque metūque; avidī coniungere dextrās  
by gladness and by fear; they were burning in their eagerness

## Vergil's words: effodio, sēmita

**23** hīc portūs aliī effodiunt; hīc alta theātrīs  
here others are digging out harbors; here others laying deep

**24** 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

**25** spūmābat rīpīs: tantus sē nūbibus imber  
over the top of its banks: so great a rainstorm had burst

**26** terram inter flūctūs aperit; furit aestus harēnīs.  
and shows the ground between the waves; the surge rages with sand.

**27** Arctūrum pluviāsque Hyadas geminōsque Triōnēs;  
Arcturus, the rainy Hyades, and the twin Wains;

## Vergil's words: ruīna, spargo, orbis

**28** Hoc equidem occāsum Trōiae trīstīsque ruīnās  
With that, I confess, I consoled myself for the fall of Troy

**29** Et iam prīma novō spargēbat lūmine terrās  
And already the first light was being scattered new over the lands

**30** 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

**31** Tē super aetheriās errāre licentius aurās  
That you should wander too freely over the upper air

**32** 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

**33** Illa manent immōta locīs, neque ab ōrdine cēdunt;  
They stay unmoved where they lie, and do not slip out of their sequence;

**34** Ūnus erit tantum, āmissum quem gurgite quaerēs;  
There will be one only, whom you will look for, lost in the flood;

**35** sōla virī mollīs aditūs et tempora nōrās.  
you alone knew the man's soft approaches and his hours.

## Vergil's words: agger, gurges, formīdo

**36** aggeribus moerōrum et inundant sanguine fossās.  
earthworks of the ramparts, and the trenches run over with blood.

**37** Ūnus erit tantum, āmissum quem gurgite quaerēs;  
There will be one only, whom you will look for, lost in the flood;

**38** alta tenent, nec nōn trepidī formīdine portās  
the heights under arms; anxious with dread, they try the gates

## Vergil's words: vadum, ratis

**39** Tyrrhēnum ad Thybrim et fontis vada sacra Numīcī.  
to Tyrrhenian Tiber and the holy shallows of Numicus' spring.

**40** 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