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Arms and the Man

Virgil · Aeneid 1.1–11

Latin · Level 4 · ~2 min · dactylic hexameter

Arms and the Man

Virgil, Aeneid 1.1–11

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit
litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis 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?

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Virgil, Aeneid 1.1–11. Source text. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit; edition: J. B. Greenough, Ginn 1881. Word analyses are machine-generated, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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