virumque

For generations of adults, the simple word-series "amo, amare, amavi, amatus" used to act as a kind of madeleine, calling to mind long classroom hours spent conjugating Latin verbs (including this one, meaning "love"), then exploring Gaul in its three parts and eventually trying to puzzle out the syntax of the rugged lines that followed "Arma virumque cano," the opening phrase of Virgil's "The Aeneid."

The Ne Plus Ultra of Languages Michael Poliakoff 2007

It's an interview with Fagles on his translation of the Aeneid, and it has a wonderful bit specifically on translating arma virumque cano.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006

It's an interview with Fagles on his translation of the Aeneid, and it has a wonderful bit specifically on translating arma virumque cano.

Robert Fagles' Aeneid 2006

Glaukôpidos: An Anachronism in Modernity: Arma virumque cano!

Arma virumque cano! 2005

Downer, a senior counsel and former Rhodes scholar, last week launched his presentation of the State's case with the apt opening line from the Roman poet Virgil's epic, the Aeneid: Arma virumque cano.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

'Sic forsan tener ausus est Catullus magno mittere passerem Maroni'; [37] the book being named from its first word, like _Arma virumque_ of the

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

'Protinus Italiam concepit et arma virumque qui modo vix Culicem fleverat ore rudi.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

-- 'O et præsidium et dulce decus meum, _agus_, Tityre tu patulæ recubans sub tegmine _Styornoway_, Arma virumque cano, _Macklyoda_ et

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

Poetry may desert the royal themes of long ago -- _arma virumque cano, maenin aeide thea_ -- and relate the lowly life of common folk, even the sordid life of the poor and miserable, but when doing so throws over it the musical glamour of verse and arouses the heat of sympathy and passion.

The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

Old Brooks, out of sheer custom, sat on the high stool at his desk and hummed his declensions to himself, or the sing-song _Arma virumque cano_ that was almost all his Latin pupils remembered of his classics when they had left school.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro