I.1-11


 * //Aeneid// I.1-11**

I sing of arms and a man, who first came from the shores of Troy, virum: Aeneas, Rome, the hero, Odyssey arma: war, Iliad
 * Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris  **

exiled by fate to Italy and Lavinian Italiam: accusative of place (don't use prepositions a lot in poetry) fato: abl. of means Lavinian: foreshadowing
 * Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit  **

shores, that guy, much tossed on both lands and deep (sea), multum: adv. describing iactatus
 * litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto **

by the power of the gods above, on account of the mindful rage of cruel Juno, superum: superorum (syncopation commonly seen in poetry)
 * vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram, **

also having suffered many things even in war, until he founded a city,
 * 5 multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, **

and brought the gods to Latium ; whence (from where) the Latin race, // Latio: dat. //
 * inferretque deos Latio; genus unde Latinum,  **

and the Alban fathers and the walls of high Rome (are). altae: transferred epithet, adjective that grammatically describes one thing but makes sense as describing another
 * Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae. **

Muse, recall to me the reasons // (remember plural) //, with what divine power having been offended, musa mihi memora: alliteration
 * Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso,  **

or suffering what, the queen of the gods forced -ve: or
 * quidve dolens regina deum tot volvere casus  **

the man distinguished in his piety, to undergo so many misfortunes, to encounter so many hardships. tot, tot: anaphora , tot: asyndeton Are there such great rages in divine minds? regina, virum, impulerit: key words add in a (sunt) after irae tantaene animis caelestibus irae: chiasmus and synchissis (which is which?)
 * 10 insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores **
 * impulerit. tantaene animis caelestibus irae? **

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