6 Flashcards

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sed nunc Italiam magnam Grynes Apollo, Italiam Lyciae iussere capessere sortes; hic amor haec patria est.

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But now Grynian Apollo and the Lycian oracles have ordered me to go to mighty Italy, (yes), Italy, this is my desire, my native land.

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si te Karthaginis arces Phoenissam Libycaque aspectus detinet urbis, quae tandem Ausonia Teucros considere terra invidia est?

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if the citadels of Carthage and the sight of the Libyan city hold you, a Phoenician back, what grudge, pray do you have against the Trojans settling in the land of Italy?

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et nos fas extera quaerere regna. me patris Anchisae, quotiens umentibus umbris nox operit terras, quotiens astra ignea surgunt, admonet in somnis et turbida terret imago;

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it is right that we too should seek foreign kingdoms. Whenever night covers the lands with its moist shades. whenever the fiery stars rise, the troubled ghost of my father warns me in my dreams and terrifies me

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me puer ascanius capitisque iniuria cari, quem regno Hesperiae fraudo et fatalibus arvis.

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my boy Ascanius and the injustice I am doing to this dear person, whom I am cheating out of the kingdom of Hesperia and destined fields.

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nunc etiam interpres divum Iove missus ab ipso (testor utrumque caput) celeris mandata per auras detulit:

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now even the interpreter of the gods sent by Jupiter himself (I swear by both persons) has brought down his instructions through the swift breezes:

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ipse deum manifesto in lumine vidi intrantem muros vocemque his auribus hausi.

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I myself saw the god in a clear light as he entered the walls and I drank in his voice with these ears.

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desine meque tuis incendere teque querelis; Italiam non sponte sequor.’

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Cease inflaming both me and you with complaints; I am not making for Italy of my own free will.

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