Virgil pg 7 (703-712) Flashcards

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interea videt Aeneas in valle reducta seclusum nemus et virgulta sonantia silvae, Lethaeumque domos placidas qui praenatat amnem

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And now, Aeneas saw a secluded grove in a remote valley, and the swishing thickets of a wood, and the Lethean river which flows by peaceful dwellings

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hunc circum innumerae gentes populique volabant: ac veluti in pratis ubi apes aestate serena floribus insidunt variis et candida circum lilia funduntur, strepit omnis murmure campus.

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Around this [river], countless races and peoples were flitting: and just when in meadows bees in the bright summertime settle upon different flowers and swarm around bright lillies, the whole plain buzzes with the humming.

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horrescit visu subito causasque requirit inscius Aeneas, quae sint ea flumina porro, quive viri tanto complerint agmine ripas.

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Aeneas bristled [with joy], at the sudden sight and asked, in his ignorance, for explanations, what those rivers were in the distance, or what men had filled the banks in such a great band.

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