Quārta · Unit 6 · Lesson 5

Aeneid 11.552–572: a baby on a spear

Metabus ties his daughter to his spear, vows her to Diana, and hurls her across the river; then raises her in the wild on a mare’s milk.

You will be able to

  • Read Aeneid 11.552–572
  • Recognize a syncopated perfect, a contrary-to-fact subjunctive and a contracted imperfect
  • Explain how Camilla came to belong to Diana

New words

  • victor, victōris, m. victor, conqueror
  • dōnum, dōnī, n. gift
  • mōns, montis, m. mountain
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