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LATN 284: The Age of Augustus
LATN 341: Vergil, Aeneid

Spring Semester 2018

Dido and Aeneas, Vatican Vergil ms, c 400, Rome


Verb Grid

arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram; Vergil, Aen. 1.1-4

Verb-form Person or Substantive-attributes1 Number (if any) Tense Voice Mood or Part of Speech2 Sense in Context Construction3
cano 1 sing. pres. act. indic. sing main verb of the whole sentence - statement of fact
venit 3 sing. pf. act. indic. come verb of relative clause of fact
iactatus masc. nom. sing. pf. pass. part. toss about agrees with ille, participial phrase in apposition extending the subject of the relative clause

1Finite verbs have person, among other attributes, non-finite verbs don't: so if the form is a finite one, give the person, but if it's a non-finite form like a participle or an infinitive, use this box to state what gender and case it has (gender and case are attributes of a substantive; number, which is an attribute of both substantives and verbs, here gets a box of its own).

2Finite verbs have mood, among other attributes, non-finite verbs don't: so if the form is a finite one, give the mood, but if it's a non-finite form like a participle or an infinitive, use this box to state what part of speech it is.

3"Construction" asks you to indicate briefly why the verb takes the form that it takes, in order to tell you what the sentence is using it to tell you: what type of clause, participial phrase, etc., is the verb-form helping to create in this sentence?


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