VOCAB - Aeneid lines 12 - 22

antiquus

ancient 

Tyrius

Tyrian, of Tyre (ancient Phoenician city from which Dido came, in the Lebanon, 50 miles south of Beiru)t

colonus

colonist

Kathago Karthaginis (f)

Carthage (in Tunisia, Rome's great rival, founded by Dido)

contra + acc.

opposite to (with Italiam and ostia)

Tiberinus

of the river Tiber

longe (adv., but in practice adjectival with ostia)

far off

ostium

river-mouth

dives divitis

rich

opes opum (f.pl.)

wealth

(defining gen., 'in wealth')

studium

pursuit

asper aspera asperum

rough, harsh, fierce

fero ferre

say

terra

earth, land

magis

more

unam

'uniquely'

posthabeo (2)

put second, regard as inferior (with Samo)

colo (3), colui, cultum

tend, love, cherish

Samos Sami (f)

the island of Samos, a famous temple of Hera

Juno was there

hic

here

currus (4)

chariot

regnum

realm, (OLD 4) political dominion, 'the power with dominion over … '

gens gentis (f)

nation

si qua

(OLD C9) if by any chance, in any way, somehow

sino (3), sivi, situm

allow

iam tum

already then, even then

tendo (3), tetendi, tentum

tend

promote foveo (2), fovi, fotum

nurse, warm, cherish, nourish

progenies (5)

offspring; family, stock, 'a breed of men'

sed enim

but indeed

sanguis sanguinis (m)

blood

duco (3), duxi, ductum

produce, 'establish'

20. olim

one day

verto (3), verti, versum

turn, overturn

arx arcis (f)

citadel

(Tyrias … arces means Carthage)

hinc

from here; from this (i.e. 'from this Trojan')

rex regis (m)

king; (as applied to a country) - ruling over

superbus

proud

late

far and wide

l. r.

'widely ruling'

excidium

destruction

volvo

unroll,reveal

Parcae

the Fates