A | B |
septem | # of Trojan ships that first land in Carthage |
Achates | started the fire with flint |
Ceres | metonymy for food |
Antheus, Capys, Caicus | comrades of Aeneas (may have been lost in the storm) |
tris cervos | led the herd |
septem cervos | what Aeneas killed |
Acestes | Sicilian King who gave wine to the Trojans |
Aeneas | said "forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit" |
Bacchus | metonymy for wine |
Juppiter | genitor Veneris; said "parce metu" |
Cytherea | born on the island of Cythera=Venus |
Teucer | early founder of Troy |
Antenor | Trojan who founded the city of Patavium |
Liburnians | Illyrians (residents of modern-day Yugoslavia) |
Timavus | river between Illyria and Italy |
Lavinium | city founded by Aeneas |
Rutulians | enemies of Aeneas in Italy |
Ascanius | aka Iulus |
Alba Longa | city founded by Ascanius |
Aeneadae | patronymic; followers of Aeneas |
Libya | North Africa |
device of horrenti' atrum nemus umbra' | chiasmus |
device of fessas navis | personification (and poetic accusative) |
Troes | Trojans |
device of silici scintillam; in fomite flammam | alliteration |
litore Trinacrio | aka Sicily |
Scylla. Cyclopes | dangers the Trojans have already survived |
torrere, frangere, vivere, exaudire | present active infinitives (to ______) |
mittite, durate, servate | commands Aeneas gives to his men |
Latium | area of Italy around Rome |
device of spemque metumque inter dubii | polysyndeton *and* anastrophe |
pius | epithet for Aeneas |
Orontes, Amycus, Lycus, Gyas, Cloanthus | Trojans whom Aeneas mourns |
despiciens, rependens | present participle (_______ing) |
said "quae te, genitor, sententia vertit?" | Venus |
device of hominumque deumque | just polysyndeton |
potuere | syncopated perfect (they _____ed) |
device of qui mare, qui terras omni dicione tenerent | anaphora |
pollicitus (es) | introduces indirect statement |
Achivis | aka Greeks |
long -is ending | poetic accusative plural (variant of -es) |
compostus | syncope |
placida compostus pace quiescit | redundant description of Antenor's life! |
"tua progenies" | Venus and Aeneas |
"unius" ob iram | Juno |
device of terna Rutulis hiberna subactis | synchysis |
"res Ilia" | =Troy |
device of magnos volvendis mensibus orbis | chiasmus |
Phrygian | =Trojan |