cognitaresmeritamvatiperAchaidasurbes
attuleratfamamnomenqueerataugurisingens.
spernitEchionidestamenhuncexomnibusunus,
contemptorsuperumPentheus,praesagaqueridet
-spernit.contemptor- emphatic positioning verbs hatred
-framed with the addition of “ridet” very negative
-ex omnibus unus- antithesis, hyperbole, homoioteleuton
-patronymic, Aneas=Anchisiades
Echion was last alive after the “sown men of dragons teeth” civil strife
verba senis tenebrasque et cladem lucis ademptae
obicit. ille movens albentia tempora canis
“quamfelixesses,situquoqueluminishuius
orbus”ait“fieres,neBacchicasacravideres.
namquediesaderit,quamnonproculauguroresse,
quanovushucveniat,prolesSemeleia,Liber;
Liber at end
-tri colon,
quemnisitemplorumfuerisdignatushonore,
millelacerspargerelocisetsanguinesilvas
honore- pentheus importance
foedabismatremquetuammatrisquesorores.
eveniet;nequeenimdignaberenumenhonore,
-tricolone with previous line polysyndeton importance of being killed by familly -"matrem..matris" +tuam -foedabis exageration, spondaic - eveniet's position is emphatic -Ino and Autnonoe
mequesubhistenebrisnimiumvidissequereris.”
taliadicentemproturbatEchionenatus.
n sounds makes his coming seem terrible foreboding
-neque and meque
-proturbat is in the historic present, paradoxical
-echione natus
-
taliadicentemproturbatEchionenatus.
dicta fides sequitur responsaque vatis aguntur:
wegweg
Liber adest festisque fremunt ululatibus agri;
turbaruitmixtaequevirismatresquenurusque
wg4wg
vulgusqueproceresqueignotaadsacraferuntur. 530
“quisfuror,anguigenae,prolesMavortia,vestras
w4g4wg
attonuitmentes?”Pentheusait:
“aeranetantum
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aererepulsavalentetaduncotibiacornu
etmagicaefraudes,
4f4fw
ut,quosnonbellicusensis,
nontubaterruerit,nonstrictisagminatelis,
wfewf4wf
femineae voces et mota insania vino
obscenique greges et inania tympana vincant?
rhthr
vosne, senes, mirer, qui longa per aequora vecti
hac Tyron, hac profugos posuistis sede penates,
rthrth
nunc sinitis sine Marte capi? vosne, acrior aetas, 540
propiorquemeae,quosarmatenere,
thrth
nonthyrsos,galeaquetegi,nonfronde,decebat?
este, precor, memores, qua sitis stirpe creati,
thrth
illiusque animos, qui multos perdidit unus,
sumite serpentis.
rthtr
pro fontibus ille lacuque 545
interiit: at vos pro fama vincite vestra.
yrh
ille dedit leto fortes: vos pellite molles
et patrium retinete decus.
grh
si fata vetabant
stare diu Thebas, utinam tormenta virique
egwg
moenia diruerent, ferrumque ignisque sonarent.
essemus miseri sine crimine, sorsque querenda,
erg
non celanda foret, lacrimaeque pudore carerent;
at nunc a puero Thebae capientur inermi,
egreg