Arma virumque cano

first 18 lines of the Aeneid

   Mon, January 22, 2007 - 9:08 AM
Arme virumque cano, Trojae qui primus ab oris
Italium fato profugus, Lavinaque venit
Litora. Multum ille et terris jactatus et alto
vi superum, saevae memorem Junonis ob iram.

Multa 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
insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores
impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

Urbs antiqua fuit (Tyrii tenuere coloni),
Karthago, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe
ostia, dives opum studiisque asperrima belli;
quam Juno fertur terris magis omnibus unam
posthabita coluisse Samo, hic illius arma,
Hic currus fuit; hoc Regnum Dea gentibus esse,
si qua fata sinant, jam tum tenditque fovetque.

I think there are one or two f*ck ups in there - oops already found one - the last line should be:

si qua fata sinant, jam tum tenditque fovetque

I left out fata! Some of the punctuation is off, too. I went ahead and corrected the errors so that the above 18 lines are correct as they are now. I actually left out four whole lines that I do know - but I just skipped over them when I was writing them down (they're all there now).

Q: Is there a contest for the most boring blog in the known universe?
A: Not since this blog started - it's definitely "no contest"!



0 Comments

add a comment