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