Stanzas 18-19 (line 431-445) Flashcards
talia dicta dabat
he was saying these words
ensis
the sword
viribus…adactus
driven with strength
transabiit
passed through
costas
his ribs
rumpit
pierced
candida pectora
his fair/beautiful/snow white chest
leto
in death
pulchrosque per artus
and along his handsome limbs
it cruor
blood flowed
inque umeros
and onto his shoulder
conlapsa recumbit
fell slumped
veluti cum
just like when
succisus aratro
cut down by a plough
languescit moriens
droops dying/as it dies
lassove…collo
or when with a weary neck
papavera
poppies
demisere caput
bow their head(s)
gravantur
they are burdened; they are weighed down
pluvia
by rain
at
but; moreover
ruit
rushed
moratur
he concentrated
glomerati
having collected together; having massed
(quem)…circum
around him; surround him
comminus
close by; hand in hand
hinc…atque hinc
this way and that way
proturbant
they drove him away
instat
he pressed on
non setius
no less
rotat ensem
brandished his sword; whirled his sword around
fulmineum
(like) a bolt of lightning
donec
until
condidit
he buried
in ore…adverso
straight into the face
Rutuli clamanti
of the shouting Rutulian
animam abstulit hosti
stole the life from his enemy
moriens
as he died; dying
sese proiecit
he threw himself
super exanimum…amicum
over/onto his lifeless friend
confossus
pierced through
demum
at last
placida…morte
in peaceful death