Expertlatin
- What is the best translation of Virgil's Aeneid?
- What is the rumor in Aeneid Book 4?
- What are the opening lines of the Aeneid in Latin and English?
- What is the famous first line of Virgil's Aeneid?
What is the best translation of Virgil's 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.
What is the rumor in Aeneid Book 4?
At once Rumour runs through Libya's great cities—Rumour the swiftest of all evils. Speed lends her strength, and she wins vigour as she goes; small at first through fear, soon she mounts up to heaven, and walks the ground with head hidden in the clouds.
What are the opening lines of the Aeneid in Latin and English?
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? Latin does not use an article, definite or indefinite. In English, we must say either “a man” or “the man”.
What is the famous first line of Virgil's Aeneid?
OPENING LINES: THE PROLOGUE OF THE AENEID
In the first line, when Virgil says, “I sing of arms and of a man...,” he refers to the twin themes of the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad, of course, focuses on Achilleus' anger within the context of the Trojan War: “arms”.
