# Prīmus et Secundus Annus, Vergil: Vōx Passīva: Tempus Praesēns to Vōx Passīva: Tempora Praeterita

Vergil

Vōx Passīva: Tempus Praesēns; Vōx Passīva: Praesēns et Futūrum; Vōx Passīva: Tempus Futūrum; Vōx Passīva: Tempora Praeterita

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## Vergil's words: vesco, digno, murmur

**1** Quid puer Ascanius? superatne et vēscitur aurā,  
What of the boy Ascanius? Does he live, and feed on air,

**2** Tum Venus: “Haud equidem tālī mē dignor honōre;  
Then Venus: “I hardly think myself worth such honor;

**3** Intereā magnō miscērī murmure pontum,  
Meanwhile Neptune felt the sea being churned with a great rumble,

## Vergil's words: turbo, intendo, caecus

**4** Cum Turnum mediō intereā fert aequore turbō.  
And meanwhile the squall carries Turnus out over the middle of the sea.

**5** excutere, et ventīs intendere vēla secundīs.  
for anywhere at all, and to set sail to whatever winds will serve.

**6** 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

**7** Excutimur cursū, et caecīs errāmus in undīs.  
We are shaken off our course, and wander in waves we cannot see.

**8** 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

**9** audītur, propiusque aestūs incendia volvunt.  
through the walls, and the burning rolls its heat nearer.

**10** nēquīquam horrēmus, caecīque in nūbibus ignēs  
do we shudder for nothing, and do unseeing fires in the clouds

**11** 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

**12** per tacitum nemus īre pedemque advertere rīpae,  
going through the silent wood and turning their feet toward the bank,

**13** quī fuit Ausonidum et tacitīs rēgnāvit Amȳclīs.  
of all the sons of Ausonia, and ruled in silent Amyclae.

**14** Aenēās ignārus abest. Numquamne levārī  
Aeneas is away and knows nothing. Will you never allow

## Vergil's words: memor, nefandus

**15** quid memorem Alcīdēn? Et mī genus ab Iove summō.”  
why of great Hercules? My own line too is from Jove at the top.”

**16** 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

**17** exanimumque aurō corpus vēndēbat Achillēs.  
and was selling the lifeless body for gold.

**18** Nec minor in terrīs, Xanthum Simoëntaque testor,  
Nor was my care for your Aeneas any less on land,

**19** puppibus et laetī nautae imposuēre corōnās.  
and the glad sailors have set garlands on the sterns.

## Vergil's words: sancio, prōicio, penitus

**20** Quid tua sāncta fidēs, quid cūra antīqua tuōrum  
What of your sacred word, what of your old care for your own,

**21** prōice tēla manū, sanguis meus!—  
throw the weapons from your hand, blood of mine!

**22** prōiēcit fluviō penitusque in nūbila fūgit.  
into the river, and fled far off into the clouds.

## Vergil's words: inānis, opācus

**23** tempus ināne petō, requiem spatiumque furōrī,  
I ask for empty time, a rest and a space for my madness,

**24** 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

**25** “Quō dīversus abīs?” iterum “Pete saxa, Menoete!”  
“Where are you going, off course?” again, “Make for the rocks, Menoetes!”

**26** aut age dīversōs et disiice corpora pontō.  
or drive them apart and scatter their bodies over the sea.

**27** “Ō fortūnātī, quōrum iam moenia surgunt!”  
“Fortunate men, whose walls are going up already!”

## Vergil's words: recēdo, luo, exigo

**28** nāte deā? Vīvisne, aut, sī lūx alma recessit,  
goddess-born? Are you alive? Or, if the kindly light has gone,

**29** Post mihi nōn similī poenā commissa luētis.  
Later you will pay me for this, and not with a penalty like it.

**30** quaerere cōnstituit, sociīsque exācta referre  
men or animals, and to bring the findings back to his companions.

| word | gloss |
|---|---|
| commissa | undertaking, enterprise, from commissum |
| sociīsque | associate, from socia |

## Vergil's words: almus, gigno

**31** alma Venus Phrygiī genuit Simoentis ad undam?  
Anchises by the water of Phrygian Simois?

**32** 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

**33** fulmine dēiectī fundō volvuntur in īmō.  
thrown down by the thunderbolt, roll in the lowest bottom.

**34** aeternīs regis imperiīs, et fulmine terrēs,  
with rule that does not end, and frighten them with the thunderbolt,

**35** 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

**36** Perge modo, et, quā tē dūcit via, dīrige gressum.”  
Only go on, and turn your step where the road leads you.”

**37** Dardana quī Paridis dirextī tēla manūsque  
you who steered the Dardan spear and the hands of Paris

**38** 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

**39** Iūnōnī cane vōta libēns, dominamque potentem  
chant your vows to Juno willingly, and get the better of that

**40** 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