Expertlatin
- What is the first stanza Aeneid?
- What are the first words of Aeneid?
- Which translation of the Aeneid is best?
What is the first stanza Aeneid?
Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expelled and exiled, left the Trojan shore.
What are the first words of Aeneid?
The first words of the Aeneid in Latin are “Arma virumque cano”. If we translate the words literally and maintain the original word order, this literally says, “Arms man and I sing.” What do you notice here?
Which translation of the Aeneid is best?
B.'s new translation has been praised by an American professor as 'probably the best version of the Aeneid in modern English'. Pacy and often colloquial, with occasional italics for emphasis, much of it reads like prose.
