Vergil: Verbum Dēpōnēns to Participia Praeterita: Clausula Temporālis

Vergil's words: ēvādo, spolio, sortior

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   Ut tandem ante oculōs ēvāsit et ōra parentum,

   When at last he got out in front of his parents' eyes and faces,

   Utthat, in order that, that not

   tandemat length, finally

   antebefore

   oculōsoculus: eye

   ēvāsitevado: evade, escape

   etand

   ōraora: shore, coast

   parentum,
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   Addit equōs et tēla, quibus spoliāverat hostem.

   He adds horses, and the weapons he had stripped from the enemy.

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   Nescia mēns hominum fātī sortīsque futūrae

   Mind of man, knowing nothing of fate and of the lot to come,

Vergil's words: immemor, praecipio, passim

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   inmemor est nostrī.

   does not forget us.

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   omnia praecēpī atque animō mēcum ante perēgī.

   I have taken it all in beforehand and gone through it in my mind.

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   ignārōsque locī passim et formīdine captōs

   and cut them down everywhere, strangers to the ground and taken

Vergil's words: allābor, refulgeo

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   ignārīque viae Cyclōpum adlābimur ōrīs.

   and, not knowing the way, we glide in to the coast of the Cyclopes.

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   Restitit Aenēās clārāque in lūce refulsit,

   Aeneas stood there and shone out in the clear light,

Aeneid I. 157–158; Aeneid I. 462

Aeneid I. 569–571; Aeneid I. 583

Vergil's words: strīdeo, orīgo, repeto

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   strīdēns, nec dulcī dēclīnat lūmina somnō;

   shrieking, and never lowers her eyes into sweet sleep;

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   Hōs pārēre iubent Alphēae ab orīgine Pīsae,

   Pisa orders these to obey him, Alphean in its origin,

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   ipse urbem repetō et cingor fulgentibus armīs.

   I myself make back for the city, and buckle on shining arms.

Vergil's words: strepitus, fretum, insuper

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   Audit equōs, audit strepitūs et signa sequentum.

   He hears horses, hears the racket and the calls of men coming after.

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   In freta dum fluviī current, dum montibus umbrae

   While the rivers run into the sea, while shadows go over

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   hoc metuēns, mōlemque et montīs īnsuper altōs

   fearing this, and laid a mass of high mountains over them,

Vergil's words: prōsequor, concutio

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   Prōsequitur surgēns ā puppī ventus euntis

   A wind rising astern follows us as we go,

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   concussēre iugīs prōnīque in verbera pendent.

   over the loosed teams, and hang forward into the lash.

Aeneid I. 106–107; Aeneid I. 184–186

Aeneid I. 656; Aeneid III. 130–131

Vergil's words: longaevus, complector, aspīro

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   Surge age, et haec laetus longaevō dicta parentī

   Get up, then, and gladly carry these words to your aged father,

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   complexī inter sē noctemque diemque morantur.

   in each other's arms they hold back a night and a day.

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   flōribus et dulcī adspīrāns complectitur umbrā.

   wraps him in flowers and breathes sweet shade around him.

Vergil's words: fleo, penna, bis

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   accēpit patriōs. Ultrō flēns ipse vidēbar

   his father's walls. I seemed to be weeping myself, unasked,

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   “Vade age, nāte, vocā Zephyrōs et lābere pennīs,

   “Go now, son, call the west winds and glide down on your wings,

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   Praetereā bis sex genitor lēctissima mātrum

   Besides, my father will give twelve women, the choicest of them,

Vergil's words: pālor, orsus

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   Fēmina pālantīs agit atque haec agmina vertit!

   A woman is driving you scattered, and turning these columns!

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   Sīc Venus; et Veneris contrā sīc fīlius orsūs:

   So Venus; and so in answer the son of Venus began:

Aeneid I. 253; Aeneid I. 441–445

Aeneid I. 631–632; Aeneid II. 644

Vergil's words: discors, minae, vomo

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   adgnōscunt, atque ōra sonō discordia signant.

   weapons, and to mark the sound of our mouths as out of tune.

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   Tolle minās.” Fātus medium prōcēdit in aequor.

   Take your threats off.” He said it, and walks out into the open field.

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   ōre vomēns ignis magnā sē mōle ferēbat.

   the thing spewed from its mouth as it heaved its great bulk along.

Vergil's words: jūro, novo, rāmus

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   Fūneris heu tibi causa fuī? Per sīdera iūrō,

   Was I, then, the cause of your death? By the stars I swear,

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   Hic prīmum fortūna fidem mūtāta novāvit.

   Here first fortune changed and broke faith.

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   quae dabat, et sacrōs servābat in arbore rāmōs,

   his meals and guard the holy branches on the tree,

Vergil's words: curvus, solium

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   dum Fortūna fuit. Feror hūc, et lītore curvō

   while Fortune lasted. Here I am carried, and on a curving shore

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   ipsīus ā soliō rēgis, trāxitque trementem;

   from the throne of the king himself, and dragged him away shaking;

Aeneid I. 541; Aeneid II. 702

Aeneid V. 604; Aeneid VI. 179