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Dust off your Collin's Dictionaries and call your favorite Gaul, the Latin Podclass is back for season two, covering Julius Caesar's De Bello Gallico!

Vix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum

vela dabant laeti, et spumas salis aere ruebant,                          35

cum Iuno, aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus,

haec secum: 'Mene incepto desistere victam,

nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem?

Quippe vetor fatis. Pallasne exurere classem

Argivum atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto,               40

unius ob noxam et furias Aiacis Oilei?

Ipsa, Iovis rapidum iaculata e nubibus ignem,

disiecitque rates evertitque aequora ventis,

illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas

turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto.                 45

Ast ego, quae divum incedo regina, Iovisque

et soror et coniunx, una cum gente tot annos

bella gero! Et quisquam numen Iunonis adoret

praeterea, aut supplex aris imponet honorem?'

Latin Relative Pronoun Forms

Singular.       M.   F.   N.

Nominative Qui Quae Quod 

Genitive Cuius Cuius Cuius 

Dative Cui Cui Cui 

Accusative Quem Quam Quod 

Ablative Quo Qua Quo 

Plural               M.  F.  N 

Nominative Qui Quae Quae 

Genitive Quorum Quarum Quorum 

Dative Quibus Quibus Quibus 

Accusative Quos Quas Quae 

Ablative Quibus Quibus Quibus

Today we cover The Aeneid I.23-33 and review Ablatives, specifically how to recognize Ablatives without Prepositions. Oh Baby.

Id metuēns, veterisque memor Sāturnia bellī,

prīma quod ad Trōiam prō cārīs gesserat Argīs—

necdum etiam causae īrārum saevīque dolōrēs                          25

exciderant animō: manet altā mente repostum

iūdicium Paridis sprētaeque iniūria fōrmae,

et genus invīsum, et raptī Ganymēdis honōrēs.

Hīs accēnsa super, iactātōs aequore tōtō

Trōas, rēliquiās Danaum atque immītis Achillī,                          30

arcēbat longē Latiō, multōsque per annōs

errābant, āctī Fātīs, maria omnia circum.

Tantae mōlis erat Rōmānam condere gentem!

Join us as we cover Aeneid I.8-22 & Present Active Participles

Mūsa, mihī causās memorā, quō nūmine laesō,

quidve dolēns, rēgīna deum tot volvere cāsūs

īnsīgnem pietāte virum, tot adīre labōrēs                                   10

impulerit. Tantaene animīs caelestibus īrae?

Urbs antīqua fuit, Tyriī tenuēre colōnī,

Karthāgō, Ītaliam contrā Tiberīnaque longē

ōstia, dīves opum studiīsque asperrima bellī,

quam Iūnō fertur terrīs magis omnibus ūnam                           15

posthabitā coluisse Samō; hīc illius arma,

hīc currus fuit; hōc rēgnum dea gentibus esse,

sī quā Fāta sinant, iam tum tenditque fovetque.

Prōgeniem sed enim Trōiānō ā sanguine dūcī

audierat, Tyriās olim quae verteret arcēs;                                   20

hinc populum lātē regem bellōque superbum

ventūrum excidiō Libyae: sīc volvere Parcās.

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Were you looking for an explainer over the first seven lines of the Aeneid and Perfect Passive Participles? If so, you've come to the right place. If not, I can't imagine how confused you are right now.

Aeneid I.1-7 

But seriously, get Geoffrey Steadman's College Vergil

Welcome to the Latin Podclass! In season one, we'll be diving into Virgil's Aeneid. Read along with Geoffrey Steadman's College Vergil.

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