She herself transformed the progeny of Troy into Latins

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Translation © by Grant Hicks

ipsa Troianos nepotes in Latinos...

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG

ipsa Troianos nepotes in Latinos transtulit ;
ipsa Laurentem puellam coniugem nato dedit,
moxque Marti de sacello dat pudicam virginem ;
Romuleas ipsa fecit cum Sabinis nuptias,
unde Ramnes et Quirites, proque prole posterum
Romuli, patrem crearet et nepotem Caesarem.

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Confirmed with Catullus, Tibullus, Pervigilium Veneris, Loeb Classical Library 6, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, Page 356.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by George Lloyd (1913 - 1998), no title, 1978-80 [ soprano, tenor, chorus and orchestra ], from Pervigilium Veneris, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2005-08-14
Line count: 6
Word count: 38

She herself transformed the progeny of...

Language: English after the Latin

She herself transformed the progeny of Troy into Latins;
she herself gave her son the Laurentine maidMmen as a bride,
and afterwards gives to Mars a chaste virgin from the shrine;
she herself arranged the Romans' marriage  to the Sabine women,
whence she would create the Ramnes and the Quirites, and for the sake of the race
descended from Romulus, the Caesars, father and nephew.

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Notes for line 2: "her son" refers to Aeneas, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (i.e., Venus). "The Laurentine maiden" is Lavinia, the daughter of King Latinus of Latium, whose capital was the coastal city of Laurentum.
Note for line 5, "Ramnes and Quirites": the Ramnes were one of the three original Roman tribes, representing the descendants of Romulus. Quirites was not itself a tribal name, but may stand in here for the tribe of the Tities, representing the descendants of the Sabines, by virtue of the Roman belief that the word "Quirites" was derived from the Sabine town of Cures. The poet omits mention of the third tribe, the Luceres (probably representing the Etruscans).
Note for line 6, "father and nephew": Caesar Augustus was Julius Caesar's great-nephew and adopted son.

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a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title
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This text was added to the website: 2026-01-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 65