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Aeneid II

Section 5 · lines 50–56 — The spear in the horse’s flank

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Word order Sound & metre Repetition Imagery & tone Diction Grammar Rhetoric Note
Latin
English
50
sīcfātūs,vălĭdīsīngēntēmvīrĭbŭshāstăm
1
Interwoven word ordervalidis, ingentem, viribus, hastam
51
īnlătŭsīnquĕfĕrīcūrvāmcōmpāgĭbŭsālvŭm
1
Hyperbatoncurvam alvum
52
cōntōrsīt:stĕtĭtīllătrĕmēns,ŭtĕrōquĕrĕcūssō
4
Enjambementcontorsit
Advancementstetit
Pregnancy vocabularyuteroque
Notesync
53
īnsŏnŭērĕcăvaēgĕmĭtūmquĕdĕdērĕcăvērnaē.
3
Advancementinsonuere
Displacementcavernae
Assonancecavae cavernae
54
ēt,fătādēūm,mēnsnōnlaēvăfŭīssĕt,
1
Anaphorasi fata, si mens
55
īmpŭlĕrātfērro͜Ārgŏlĭcāsfoēdārĕlătēbrās,
3
Advancementimpulerat
Indicativeimpulerat Used to show how nearly the event happened
HyperbatonArgolicas latebras
56
Troīăquĕ,nūncstārēt,Prĭămīque͜ārxāltă,mănērēs.
3
Apostrophemaneres
Noteacc. of respect
Noteantecedent of qui
50
Having spoken thus, he hurled a huge spear with his powerful strength
51
into the side and into the belly of the beast curved with timbers:
52
it stood there quivering, and by the reverberation of the womb
53
The hollows sounded and the caverns gave a groan.
54
and, if divine fate, if our minds had not been perverse,
55
He would have driven us to spoil the Greek hiding places with our swords,
56
and Troy would now stand, and you, the high citadel of Priam would remain.
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