reading comp ch 21
what other poems is Vergil known for and what are they?
- the Aeneid: epic - the Georgics: glorification of fArmINg - the Eclogues: 10 short pastoral poems extolling the shepherd's life
what does it have to do with FARMING?
Vergil discusses how mankind didn't always have to work for food and his hope to return to that time
venit iam magna aetas nova; de caelo mittitur puer, qui vitam deorum habebit deosque videbit et ipse videbitur ab illis
a great new time comes now; from heaven is sent a boy, who will have the life of the gods and he will see the gods and he himself will be seen by them
pauca mala, autem, remanebunt, quae homines iubebunt laborare atque bellum asperum gerere
few evils, however, will remain, which will command men to work and wage rough war
what was the Eclogue about?
it heralded the world's rebirth and a new Golden Age of peace and freedom from toil that would be brought by a divine boy
what did Vergil express through the poem?
longing for an end to Roman civil war
who was the boy mentioned suspected to be?
reference to the family of Octavian or Mark Antony (son of Augustus)
currite, aetates; incipe, parve puer, scire matrem, et erit satis spiritus mihi tua dicere facta
run, time; begin, small boy, to know your mother, and there will be enough breath for me to speak your deeds
tum, puer, ubi iam longa aetas te virum fecerit, erunt nulli labores, nulla bella; nautae ex navibus discedent, agricolae quoque iam agros relinquent, terra ipsa omnibus hominibus omnia parabit
then, boy, when a time already long will have made you a man, there will be no labors, no war; sailors will depart from ships, also now farmers will abandon their fields, the land itself will provide everything for all humans
erunt etiam altera bella atque iterum ad troiam magnus mittetur achilles
there will even be other wars, and again a great achilles will be sent to troy
hic puer reget mundum cui virtutes patris pacem dederunt
this boy will rule the world, to which the virtues of the father have given peace
