Vergil: Vōx Passīva: Tempus Praesēns to Vōx Passīva: Tempora Praeterita

Vergil's words: vesco, digno, murmur

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   Quid puer Ascanius? superatne et vēscitur aurā,

   What of the boy Ascanius? Does he live, and feed on air,

   Quidquis: what?

   puerboy

   Ascanius?

   superatne

   etand

   vēscitur

   aurā,
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   Tum Venus: “Haud equidem tālī mē dignor honōre;

   Then Venus: “I hardly think myself worth such honor;

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   Intereā magnō miscērī murmure pontum,

   Meanwhile Neptune felt the sea being churned with a great rumble,

Vergil's words: turbo, intendo, caecus

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   Cum Turnum mediō intereā fert aequore turbō.

   And meanwhile the squall carries Turnus out over the middle of the sea.

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   excutere, et ventīs intendere vēla secundīs.

   for anywhere at all, and to set sail to whatever winds will serve.

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   Excutimur cursū, et caecīs errāmus in undīs.

   We are shaken off our course, and wander in waves we cannot see.

Vergil's words: excutio, prōnus

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   Excutimur cursū, et caecīs errāmus in undīs.

   We are shaken off our course, and wander in waves we cannot see.

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   in puppim ferit: excutitur prōnusque magister

   full on the stern: the steersman is shaken loose and pitched

Aeneid I. 335; Aeneid II. 234

Aeneid II. 655–656; Aeneid III. 200

Vergil's words: propior, nēquīquam, tumulus

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   audītur, propiusque aestūs incendia volvunt.

   through the walls, and the burning rolls its heat nearer.

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   nēquīquam horrēmus, caecīque in nūbibus ignēs

   do we shudder for nothing, and do unseeing fires in the clouds

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   et tumulum capit, unde omnēs longō ōrdine possit

   and takes a rise of ground from which he could read them all

Vergil's words: nemus, taceo, levo

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   per tacitum nemus īre pedemque advertere rīpae,

   going through the silent wood and turning their feet toward the bank,

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   quī fuit Ausonidum et tacitīs rēgnāvit Amȳclīs.

   of all the sons of Ausonia, and ruled in silent Amyclae.

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   Aenēās ignārus abest. Numquamne levārī

   Aeneas is away and knows nothing. Will you never allow

Vergil's words: memor, nefandus

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   quid memorem Alcīdēn? Et mī genus ab Iove summō.”

   why of great Hercules? My own line too is from Jove at the top.”

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   at spērāte deōs memorēs fandī atque nefandī.

   still look for gods who remember what is spoken rightly and wrongly.

Aeneid I. 542–543; Aeneid II. 705–706

Aeneid IV. 173–174; Aeneid V. 815

Vergil's words: exanimis, testor, impōno

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   exanimumque aurō corpus vēndēbat Achillēs.

   and was selling the lifeless body for gold.

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   Nec minor in terrīs, Xanthum Simoëntaque testor,

   Nor was my care for your Aeneas any less on land,

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   puppibus et laetī nautae imposuēre corōnās.

   and the glad sailors have set garlands on the sterns.

Vergil's words: sancio, prōicio, penitus

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   Quid tua sāncta fidēs, quid cūra antīqua tuōrum

   What of your sacred word, what of your old care for your own,

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   prōice tēla manū, sanguis meus!—

   throw the weapons from your hand, blood of mine!

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   prōiēcit fluviō penitusque in nūbila fūgit.

   into the river, and fled far off into the clouds.

Vergil's words: inānis, opācus

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   tempus ināne petō, requiem spatiumque furōrī,

   I ask for empty time, a rest and a space for my madness,

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   accipe, quae peragenda prius. Latet arbore opācā

   hear what has to be done first. Hidden in a shaded tree

Aeneid VI. 834–835

Vergil's words: dīverto, dīsicio, fortūno

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   “Quō dīversus abīs?” iterum “Pete saxa, Menoete!”

   “Where are you going, off course?” again, “Make for the rocks, Menoetes!”

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   aut age dīversōs et disiice corpora pontō.

   or drive them apart and scatter their bodies over the sea.

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   “Ō fortūnātī, quōrum iam moenia surgunt!”

   “Fortunate men, whose walls are going up already!”

Vergil's words: recēdo, luo, exigo

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   nāte deā? Vīvisne, aut, sī lūx alma recessit,

   goddess-born? Are you alive? Or, if the kindly light has gone,

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   Post mihi nōn similī poenā commissa luētis.

   Later you will pay me for this, and not with a penalty like it.

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   quaerere cōnstituit, sociīsque exācta referre

   men or animals, and to bring the findings back to his companions.

commissa

undertaking, enterprise, from commissum

sociīsque

associate, from socia

Vergil's words: almus, gigno

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   alma Venus Phrygiī genuit Simoentis ad undam?

   Anchises by the water of Phrygian Simois?

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   dīs genitī potuēre. Tenent media omnia silvae,

   sons of gods, have done it. Woods hold all the middle ground,

Aeneid I. 136; Aeneid I. 437

Aeneid I. 617–618; Aeneid II. 27–29

Vergil's words: fulmen, terreo, sacro

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   fulmine dēiectī fundō volvuntur in īmō.

   thrown down by the thunderbolt, roll in the lowest bottom.

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   aeternīs regis imperiīs, et fulmine terrēs,

   with rule that does not end, and frighten them with the thunderbolt,

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   sacrātī capitis, mēque ad tua līmina, Phoebe,

   from his hallowed head; and to your threshold, Phoebus, he leads me

Vergil's words: gradior, dīrigo, capesso

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   Perge modo, et, quā tē dūcit via, dīrige gressum.”

   Only go on, and turn your step where the road leads you.”

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   Dardana quī Paridis dirextī tēla manūsque

   you who steered the Dardan spear and the hands of Paris

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   explōrāre labor; mihi iussa capessere fās est.

   what you wish; for me it is right to take up the orders.

Vergil's words: vōtum, exterreo

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   Iūnōnī cane vōta libēns, dominamque potentem

   chant your vows to Juno willingly, and get the better of that

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   Tum vērō īnfēlīx fātīs exterrita Dīdō

   Then indeed unlucky Dido, terrified by the fates,

Aeneid I. 401; Aeneid V. 201

Aeneid VI. 580–581; Aeneid XII. 659–660