Latin Flashcards
urbs antiqua fuit
(Tyrii tenuere coloni)
There was an ancient city
Karthago Italiam contra Tiberniaque longe
Carthage facing Italy and the distant river mouth of the Tiber
ostia dives opum studiisque asperrima belli
carthage was rich in wealth and very fierece in pursuit of war
Quam Iuno fertur terris magis omnibus unam
Juna is said to have cared for it , this one place more than all lands
posthabita colussie samo: hic illius arma
with Samos placed second here was her armour here was her
hic currus fuit; hoc regnum dea gentibus esse
chariot; if the fates were to allow a way the Goddess already then both
si qua fata sinant iam tum tendique fovetique
directs and supports this place to be ruler of races
progeniem sed enim Trojana sanguine duci
but actually she had heard that an offspring drawn
faudierat Tyrias olim quae verteret arces
from Trojan blood which one day would overtrun the Tyrian citadel
hinc populum late regem belloque superbum
From this place people wide-ruling and proud in war
venturum excidio Libayae; sic volvere Parcas
will come with destruction for Libya ;thus the fates reveal
id meteuens,veterisque memor Saturnia belli
she was fearing that and the daughter of Saturn was mindful of the ancient war
prima quod ad Triom pro caris gesserat Argis
which she foremost had waged war at Troy on behalf of dear Argos
necdum etiam causae irarium saevique dolores
not even yet had the causes of her anger and the savage grief
exciderant animo;manet alta mente repostum
had left her mind. The judgement of paris remains stored deep in her mind
iudicium Paridis spretaeque iniuria formae
and the injury to her rejected beauty
et genus invisum et rapti Ganymedis honores
along with the hated race and honours for stolen ganymete
his accensa super iactatos aequore toto
Enraged by these things further she was keeping the Trojans
Tros,reliquias Danum atque immitis Achilli
far from Latium having been thrown around the entire sea the survivors from the Greeks and cruel Achilles
