- What are the first lines of the Aeneid translation?
- What is the best translation of Aeneid?
- How many lines are in Aeneid Book 1?
- What are the opening lines to the Aeneid?
What are the first lines of the Aeneid translation?
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?
What is the best translation of Aeneid?
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.
How many lines are in Aeneid Book 1?
And the Aeneid itself (9,883 lines) works out to about three lines a day. Little wonder that it is so succinct and complex.
What are the opening lines to the Aeneid?
Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expelled and exiled, left the Trojan shore.