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For questions about Publius Vergilius Maro and his work.
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Length of i in Vergilius' "ferentis"
In the famous line "quicquid id est timeo Danaos et dona ferentis" Vergilius uses an older plural accusative form ferentis instead of ferentes.
(It is unimportant here whether quicquid or quidquid is ...
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Is -um (instead of -ōrum) a typical genitive plural ending outside of poetry?
I understand that Vergil often uses the -um genitive plural ending for some second declension nouns, instead of -ōrum. For example:
huc delecta virum sortiti corpora furtim (Aeneid, Book II, line ...
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Parsing "oblita carmina"
Vergil wrote (Eclogues IX.51–4), quoted by Draconis in this answer:
Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque. Saepe ego longos
cantando puerum memini me condere soles.
Nunc oblita mihi tot carmina: vox quoque ...
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Omnia vincit amor: vincere or vincire?
The phrase omnia vincit amor (from Vergilius' tenth Ecloga; see full text in Latin and English) is typically translated as "love conquers everything".
However, vincit can come from either vincere (to ...
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Translating "Nocte volat caelī mediō"
Line 184 of Vergil's Aeneid, Book IV, begins as follows:
Nocte volat caelī mediō
Would this be translated as "She of the sky flies in the middle of the night", or "At night she flies in the middle ...
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Negative Future Imperatives
In reading through Book VI of Vergil's Aeneid, I came across the following line:
851 tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
I believe this is translated as "you, Roman, remember to rule the ...
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Are Iulus and Iulius related?
Is there an etymological (and hence historical) relation between Aeneas's son Iulus and Iulius Caesar? Virgil was obviously trying to establish a conexion of blood, be it mythological, between the ...
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Meaning of a present participle in a verse of Vergil's Eclogue 8
I'm reading Vergil's Eclogue 8, 17–42 in the book Beginning Latin Poetry Reader by Gavin Betts and Daniel Franklin. The first verse is (I write only the long vowels macrons):
Nāscere, prāēque diem ...
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Fifth spondee in Aeneis I.690
I ran into this hexameter verse by Vergilius when researching for an answer to another question:
exuit, et gressu gaudens incedit Iuli.
(Aeneis I.690)
The only way I seem to able to scan this line ...
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"Alēctō" or "Allēctō"?
"Alēctō" is the name of one of the Furies, made surprisingly famous in the Harry Potter books. It seems to come straightforwardly from Greek ?- "not" + lēg- "stop" + -tos "[adjective]", so "...
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