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Latin · Unit 47

Vergil: Participium Perfectum Passīvum to Verbum Dēpōnēns

Vergil

Participium Perfectum Passīvum; Cornēlius lītterās scrībit; Alterae dē eādem rē lītterae; Verbum Dēpōnēns

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Vergil's words: crātēra, juvencus, volūcris

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    they set up great mixing bowls and crown the wine.

    crātērās
    magnōs
    statuunt
    etand
    vīna
    corōnant.
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    before the altars slaughtered bullocks strewed the ground.

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    her horses and outruns the Hebrus in its flying.

Vergil's words: error, ōbicio, perfero

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    and your own wanderings; for this is now the seventh summer

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    onto me in my madness, sister, and threw me to the enemy.

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    I will be able to bear it too, sister. Still, do this one thing

Vergil's words: impello, praeverto

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    let the door flurry the soft foliage, and after that

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    her horses and outruns the Hebrus in its flying.

Aeneid V. 819; Aeneid VI. 544

Aeneid VI. 651; Aeneid VIII. 718–719

Vergil's words: mīrābilis, rapto, ostento

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    her mother Leda's wonderful gift;

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    Three times Achilles had dragged Hector round the walls of Ilium,

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    and shows her Sidonian wealth and the city standing ready;

Vergil's words: macto, tumultus, sisto

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    bring gifts, load the altars, and slaughter bullocks;

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    Aeneas, wondering at this and moved by the uproar,

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    and stand the doomed monster inside the holy citadel.

Vergil's words: nītor, sollemnis

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    Entellus stands heavy, unmoved in the same stance,

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    was killing a huge bull at the appointed altars.

Aeneid I. 483–484; Aeneid I. 623–624

Aeneid IV. 74–75; Aeneid V. 100–101

Vergil's words: infensus, aquilo, appāreo

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    Then he had aimed the hostile spear at Magus from a distance.

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    brought back, driven into safety by a shift of the north winds,

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    Terrible faces appear, and, hostile to Troy,

Vergil's words: ingemino, abrumpo, horridus

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    the sky from us; the fires double as the clouds break open.

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    With these words she breaks the talk off in the middle, and sick

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    You, goddess, you instruct your poet. I will tell of bristling wars,

Vergil's words: urgeo, percello

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    No divine powers are pressing us; we are mortals hard pressed

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    He was struck dumb, and Achates with him, struck at the same moment

Aeneid I. 513–514; Aeneid II. 622–623

Aeneid V. 638–640; Aeneid VI. 648–650

Vergil's words: mīror, mōlior, affor

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    He marvels at the arms far off, and the men's chariots standing empty.

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    From there he labors at the road given him. And now they were holding

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    no chance given your poor mother to speak to you one last time?

Vergil's words: alloquor, miseror, sublīmis

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    Whom do you flee? By fate this is the last word I shall say to you.”

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    the strange shape of an unknown man comes forward, pitiable in his state,

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    of Lavinium, and you will carry great-hearted Aeneas high

Vergil's words: asto, rēmigium

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    on the oarage of his wings, and stood quickly on the coast of Libya.

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    the oarage of his wings, and set up an enormous temple.

Aeneid I. 625–626; Aeneid I. 747

Aeneid II. 701; Aeneid IV. 76

The particulars

The course
Paine and Mainwaring, Prīmus Annus (Oxford, 1912) and Secundus Annus (1917); Appleton and Jones, Puer Rōmānus (1913); D'Ooge, Latin for Beginners (Boston, 1911); Ritchie, Fabulae Faciles (1903). Public domain. The teaching pages, the glosses and the narration are ours.
Reading aloud
Digital narration, directed by 1732 Studios.
The app
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The book
The Aeneid, the work this course leads to, free to read here.
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