Book One Flashcards
There was once an ancient city…Carthage
Urbs antiqua fuit…Karthago
Muse, let the memories spill through me
Musa, mihi causas memora
Arms and the man, I sing of Troy who first from it’s seashores
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
As he flings Forth such words, a gust, shrieking from the north…lifts the waves to heaven
Talia iactanti stridens aquilone procella velum adversa, fluctusque ad sidera tollit
Such words he spoke, while sick with deep distress he feigns hope on his face
Talia voce refert curisque ingentibus aeger spem vultu simulat
Much the same happens within a great nation, where lawlessness often burst into riots
Ac veluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est sedito
Penthesilea appears, all ablaze in her full battle fury
Penthesilea furens mediisque in militibus ardet
A woman who dares to engage with the men in their battle
Audetque viris concurrere virgo
Tries to surprise with living passion, a heart where the fire has died and where love is a memory
Vivo temptat praevertere amore iam prides resides animos desuetaque corda
The queen calls for a chalice of gold encrusted with jewels
Hic regna gravem gemmis auroque poposcit
Jupiter - for they say that you appoint laws for host and quest
Iuppiter - hospitibus nam te dare iura loquuntur
And now they climb the hill that looms large over the city and looks down on the confronting towers
Iamque ascendebant collem, qui plurimus urbi imminet adversasque aspectat desuper arces
Even as bees in early summer, amid flowery fields
Qualis apes aestate nova por florea rura exercet
That I could not fall on Ilian plains!
Mene Iliacis occumbere campis non potuisse!