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This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the first half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running vocabulary, on-page commentary notes and targeted questions. The book can be used as a source of one-off unseen passages or as a reader for students working through individual books or the whole poem. The commentary notes explain references to characters, places and events, provide linguistic and grammatical help on more challenging Latin phrases, and point out stylistic features. The questions test students' comprehension of the characters and storyline, and give them practice in handling literary terms. The passages are linked by summaries of the continuing plot, so students can grasp the progression of the poem as a whole. An in-depth introduction sets the story of the Aeneid in its mythological, literary and historical contexts; a glossary of literary devices and sections on style and metre are included. At the end of the book is a complete alphabetical vocabulary list.
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Book 1
arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam fato profugus Lavinaque venit
litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram,
5multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem
inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum
Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.
Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso
quidve dolens regina deum tot volvere casus
10insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores
impulerit. tantaene animis caelestibus irae?
There was a town called Carthage, which Juno loved more than any other. But she had heard of a race of men descended from the Trojans, who were destined one day to destroy Carthage. She also remembered helping the Greeks to fight the Trojans in the Trojan War, because of the judgement of Paris.
his accensa super iactatos aequore toto
30Troas, reliquias Danaum atque inmitis Achilli,
arcebat longe Latio, multosque per annos
errabant acti fatis maria omnia circum.
| arma, -orum n.pl. | arms |
| cano, -ere | I sing |
| Troia, -ae f. | Troy |
| ora, -ae f. | shore |
| Italia, -ae f. | Italy |
| fatum, -i n. | fate |
| profugus, -a, -um | fleeing |
| Lavinus, -a, -um | of Lavinium |
| litus, -oris n. | shore |
| iacto, -are | I toss, toss about |
| altum, -i n. | sea |
| vis (no gen.) f. | power, force |
| superi, -um m.pl. | gods |
| saevus, -a, -um | cruel |
| memor, -oris | mindful |
| Iuno, -onis f. | Juno |
| ob + acc. | because of |
| ira, -ae f. | anger |
| patior, -i, passus sum 5 | I suffer |
| condo, -ere | I found, establish |
| infero, -ferre | I install |
| Latium, -i n. | Latium |
| genus, -eris n. | race |
| Latinus, -a, -um | Latin |
| Albanus, -a, -um | Alban |
| moenia, -ium n.pl. | walls |
| Musa, -ae f. | Muse |
| memoro, -are | I relate |
| numen, -inis n. | divinity |
| laedo, -ere, laesi, laesus | I offend |
| -ve | or |
| doleo, -ere | I resent |
| tot | so many |
| volvo, -ere | I pass through, roll |
| casus, -us m. | disaster |
| insignis, -e 10 | famous |
| pietas, -atis f. | dutifulness |
| adeo, -ire | I face |
| impello, -ere, -puli, -pulsus | I drive, strike |
| caelestis, -e | of the gods |
| accendo, -ere, -ndi, -nsus | I inflame |
| super | in addition |
| aequor, -oris n. | sea |
| Tros, -ois m. 30 | Trojan |
| reliquiae, -arum f.pl. | those left alive |
| Danai, -orum or -um m.pl. | Greeks |
| inmitis, -e | pitiless |
| Achilles, -ei or -i m. | Achilles |
| arceo, -ere | I keep … from |
| longe | a long way |
| erro, -are | I wander |
| ago, -ere, egi, actus | I drive, treat |
| mare, -is n. | sea |
| circum + acc. | around |
1 virum: Aeneas is the man. qui: to be taken first.
2 Italiam: ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Book 1
- Book 2
- Book 3
- Book 4
- Book 5
- Book 6
- Word list
- Index
- Copyright