Virgil Flashcards
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Description of Aeneas’s descendants
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That young man Who leans upon his glorious spear
he will be the first to rise into the ethereal air
Lavinia will rear in the woods to be a king of kings
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Description of Aeneas’s journey
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Thrown about greatly on both land and sea
Suffered much from war
Brought the gods to Latinum
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Praise of Augustus Caesar
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Augustus Caesar son of a god
He will bring back the golden age to Latium
He will extend the bounds of our empire
-to where there is land beyond the stars
Not even Hercules covered so much of the earth
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Why he writes doesn’t have to be true
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He is a poet
Mo about what the legends say Bout the Romans and their culture
