Inde ubi prima quies medio iam noctis abactae

curriculo expulerat somnum, cum femina primum,

cui tolerare colo uitam tenuique Minerua

impositum, cinerem et sopitos suscitat ignis410

noctem addens operi, famulasque ad lumina longo

exercet penso, castum ut seruare cubile

coniugis et possit paruos educere natos:

haud secus ignipotens nec tempore segnior illo

mollibus e stratis opera ad fabrilia surgit.415

Īnsula Sīcanium iūxtā latus Aeoliamque

ērigitur Liparēn fūmantibus ardua saxīs,

quam subter specus et Cyclōpum exēsa camīnīs

antra Aetnaea tonant, validīque incūdibus ictūs

audītī referunt gemitūs, strīduntque cavernīs420

strictūrae Chalybum et fornācibus īgnis anhēlat,

Volcānī domus et Volcānia nōmine tellūs.

Hōc tunc īgnipotēns caelō dēscendit ab altō.

    CORE VOCABULARY

    quiēs, ētis, f.: rest, repose, 3.495; sleep, 2.268; respite, intermission, 1.723.

    abigō, ēgī, āctus, 3, a.: to drive off or away from, i.e. beyond (others in), 8.407; drive away, 11.261. (ab and agō)

    curriculum, ī, n.: career, course, 8.408. (currō)

    expellō, pulī, pulsus, 3, a.: to drive out; drive or carry up; banish, 1.620; repel, drive, 10.354.

    tolerō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.: to sustain; support, maintain, 8.409; endure, 8.515. (cf. tollō)

    colus, ī and ūs, f.: a distaff, 7.805; spinning, 8.409. (rarely m.)

    tenuis, e: adj. (cf. tendō), stretched out; slender, thin, 4.278; light, 3.448; little, 10.511; airy, ethereal, 6.292; delicate, fine, 4.264; scanty, yielding a scanty livelihood, 8.409; reduced, perishing, sinking, 5.690; simple, trivial, humble.

    Minerva, ae, f.: an Italian goddess, understood to be the same as the Greek Athena; the goddess of wisdom, of the liberal and industrial arts, and of systematic or strategic warfare, 2.31, et al.; (meton.), wisdom, wit; household work, spinning, the loom, etc., 5.284, et al.

    sōpiō, īvī or iī, ītus, 4, a.: to put to sleep; p., sōpītus, a, um, lulled to sleep, 1.680; slumbering, 5.743. (sopor)

    suscitō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.: to stir up, turn up; to rekindle, 5.743; rouse, incite, 2.618; call forth, 8.455.

    famula, ae, f.: a female house slave; maidservant, 1.703. (famulus)

    pēnsum, ī, n.: that which is weighed out or assigned for a day's spinning; a day's work; task, 8.412; a web, 9.476. (pendō)

    cubīle, is, n.: a lair, bed, couch, 3.324. (cubō, lie down)

    possum, potuī, posse, irreg. n.: to be able; can, 1.242, et al.; to avail, have influence, power, 4.382. (potis and sum)

    secus: following, late; otherwise, differently; nōn or haud secus, not otherwise, not less; likewise, even so, 2.382, et al.; none the less, nevertheless, 5.862; haud secus ac, nor otherwise than, just as. (comp. adv.), sētius, less, the less; haud sētius, not the less, 7.781.

    īgnipotēns, entis: adj. (īgnis and potēns), having power over fire; subst., Īgnipotēns, the fire-god, Vulcan, 10.243.

    nec or neque: (adv. and conj.), and not; neither, nor, 1.643, et al.; in prohibition, 3.394, et al.; neque (nec) — neque (nec), neither — nor, 5.21, et al.; nec — et, or -que, may be rendered neither — nor, 12.801; 2.534; nec nōn, and also, nor less, 6.183; nec nōn et, and also, 1.707.

    tempus, oris, n.: 1. Time in general, a period, time, 1.278; interval or space of time, 4.433; crisis, circumstance, juncture, 7.37; season, fitting time, opportunity, proper moment, 4.294; ex longō (tempore), in or for a long time, 9.64. 2. The temple of the forehead, 9.418; commonly pl., 2.684; of animals, 12.173.

    sēgnis, e: (adj.), tardy, sluggish, dilatory, backward, 11.736; slothful, inactive, 3.513; mean-spirited, cowardly, 9.787; helpless, 10.700; (fig.), idle, exhausted; comp., sēgnior, less glorious, less divine, 4.149; less rapid, 7.383.

    strātum, ī, n.: that which is spread out; a layer, cover; bed, couch, 3.513; pavement, 1.422. (sternō)

    fabrīlis, e: adj. (faber, smith), pertaining to a smith; forging, 8.415.

    Sicānus (Sicānius), a, um: adj. (Sicānī), Sicilian, Sicanian, 5.24, et al.

    iūxtā: (adv. and prep. w. acc.), near, close, near by, 2.513; at the same time, 2.666; near to, 3.506.

    Aeolius, a, um: (adj.), pertaining to Aeolus; Aeolian, 5.791.

    ērigō, rēxī, rēctus, 3, a.: to raise up, rear, erect, 4.495; cast upward, 3.423. (ex and regō)

    Liparē, ēs, f.: Lipara or Lipare, one of the Aeolian Islands, N.E. of Sicily, 8.417.

    fūmō, āvī, ātus, 1, n.: to smoke, 3.3, et al.; send up vapor; fume, reek, 2.698; foam, 12.338. (fūmus)

    arduus, a, um: (adj.), steep; erect, high, raised high, 2.475; 5.480; lofty, towering, 2.328; rearing, 11.638.

    subter: (prep. w. acc. and abl.), below, beneath, under, 3.695; beneath, 4.182. (sub)

    specus, ūs, m., f., and n.: a cave, cavern; cavity, deep wound, 9.700.

    Cyclōps, ōpis, m.: a Cyclops, one of the Cyclopes, fabulous giants of Sicily, supposed to have a round eye in the middle of the forehead, 3.569.

    exedō, ēdī, ēsus, 3, a.: to eat out, hollow out, devour; consume, destroy, 5.785.

    camīnus, ī, m.: a furnace; forge, 6.630; crevice, cavity, 3.580.

    antrum, ī, n.: a cave, cavern, grotto, 1.166.

    Aetnaeus, a, um: adj. (Aetna), of Aetna; Aetnaean, 3.678.

    tonō, uī, 1, n. and a.: to thunder, 3.571, et al.; of speech, 11.383; (with acc.), utter, invoke with a loud voice, thunder forth, 4.510.

    incūs, ūdis, f.: an anvil, 7.629. (incūdō, to beat)

    gemitus, ūs, m.: a groaning; a groan, 3.39, et al.; sigh, 1.485; lamentation, 2.486; cry, 2.413; noise, roaring, 3.555. (gemō)

    strīdeō, 2, n., and strīdō, strīdī, 3: to produce a grating or shrill sound; to creak, 1.449; gurgle, 4.689; rustle, 1.397; whiz, roar, 1.102; hiss, 8.420; twang, 5.502.

    caverna, ae, f.: a hollow; cavern, 2.53, et al. (cavus)

    strīctūra, ae, f.: a mass or bar of hot iron, 8.421. (stringō)

    Chalybes, um, m.: a people of Pontus, skillful in making steel; the Chalybes; (meton.), masses of steel or iron, 8.421; metalla Chalybum, mines of iron, 10.174.

    fornāx, ācis, f.: a furnace; forge, 7.636.

    anhēlō, āvī, ātus, 1, n. and a.: to pant, 5.254; of a furnace, to puff, roar, 8.421. (am- and hālō)

    Vulcānus, ī, m.: the god of fire and of the forge, son of Jupiter and Juno, 8.422; (meton.), fire, 2.311, et al.

    Vulcānius, a, um: adj. (Vulcānus), pertaining to Vulcan; forged or wrought by Vulcan, 12.739, et al.; of fire or flame, 10.408.

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    Suggested Citation

    Christopher Francese and Meghan Reedy, Vergil: Aeneid Selections. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Dickinson College Commentaries, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-947822-08-5. https://dcc.dickinson.edu/vergil-aeneid/vergil-aeneid-viii-407-423