AP+Latin+prep

Make sure that you are reading the Aeneid English version:

We left off here in Book VII:

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidVII.htm#anchor_Toc3086148

(Book VII: line 540)


 * Poetry Terms:**

Enjambement: delay of the final word or phrase of a sentence or a clause to the beginning of the following verse, to emphasize an idea or image to create suspense. (i.e. 1.4 "vi superum" as an important phrase separated by 1.3) Metonymy: A type of imagery in which one word, generally a noun, is employed to suggest another with which it is closely related (i.e. "Of arms and the man I sing," arms = warfare)

a or ab: prep + abl: from, by arma:-orum (n, pl): weapons, arms cano, canare (1st conjugation): I sing primus, -a, -um (adj): first -que: enclitic meaning "and" qui (m), quae (f), quod (n): (relative pronouns) who, which, that ora, -ae (f): border, edge, coast, shore, region, land Troia,-ae (f, noun) Troy
 * Vocabulary:**
 * 1:1**

fatum, -i (n): fate Italia, -ae (f): Italy Lavinius, -a, -um (adj): Lavinian, of Lavinium profugus, -i (m): an exile venio, venire (4): I come
 * 1:2**

litus, litoris (n): seashore, coast
 * 1:3**


 * Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris**
 * Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit**
 * litora--**

//**I sing of/about arms and the man, who, the first from the region of Troy,**// //**an exile by fate (ablative), came to Italy and the Lavinian shores.**//

altus: (here) the deep, the sea iacto (1): to throw, cast...iactatus is the 4th principal part multum (Adv): greatly terris (poetic plural = translate as a singular)
 * 1:3**

superus, (superum is short for superorum): in the pl = gods vis, vis, acc = vim, abl vi (f): force, amount
 * 1:4**


 * --multum ille et terris iactatus et alto**
 * vi superum,**

//**That man, having been thrown about greatly on both land and sea**// //**by the force of the gods,**//