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The Aeneid
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- The Tyrians, landing near this holy ground, And digging here, a prosp'rous omen found: From under earth a courser's head they drew, Their growth and future fortune to foreshew.†
Book 1omen = sign of something about to happen
- Then Calchas bade our host for flight And hope no conquest from the tedious war, Till first they sail'd for Greece; with pray'rs besought Her injur'd pow'r, and better omens brought.†
Book 2omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- But first, to reconcile the blue-ey'd maid For her stol'n statue and her tow'r betray'd, Warn'd by the seer, to her offended name We rais'd and dedicate this wondrous frame, So lofty, lest thro' your forbidden gates It pass, and intercept our better fates: For, once admitted there, our hopes are lost; And Troy may then a new Palladium boast; For so religion and the gods ordain, That, if you violate with hands profane Minerva's gift, your town in flames shall burn, (Which omen, O ye gods, on Graecia turn!)†
Book 2omen = sign of something about to happen
- A greater omen, and of worse portent, Did our unwary minds with fear torment, Concurring to produce the dire event.†
Book 2
- Amaz'd, with running water we prepare To quench the sacred fire, and slake his hair; But old Anchises, vers'd in omens, rear'd His hands to heav'n, and this request preferr'd: 'If any vows, almighty Jove, can bend Thy will; if piety can pray'rs commend, Confirm the glad presage which thou art pleas'd to send.'†
Book 2omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- These omens are your own, And you can yet restore the ruin'd town.†
Book 2
- BOOK III "When Heav'n had overturn'd the Trojan state And Priam's throne, by too severe a fate; When ruin'd Troy became the Grecians' prey, And Ilium's lofty tow'rs in ashes lay; Warn'd by celestial omens, we retreat, To seek in foreign lands a happier seat.†
Book 3
- I land; with luckless omens then adore Their gods, and draw a line along the shore; I lay the deep foundations of a wall, And Aenos, nam'd from me, the city call.†
Book 3
- Then, fearing guilt for some offense unknown, With pray'rs and vows the Dryads I atone, With all the sisters of the woods, and most The God of Arms, who rules the Thracian coast, That they, or he, these omens would avert, Release our fears, and better signs impart.†
Book 3
- But old Anchises, off'ring sacrifice, And lifting up to heav'n his hands and eyes, Ador'd the greater gods: 'Avert,' said he, 'These omens; render vain this prophecy, And from th' impending curse a pious people free!'†
Book 3
- Then to the royal seer I thus began: 'O thou, who know'st, beyond the reach of man, The laws of heav'n, and what the stars decree; Whom Phoebus taught unerring prophecy, From his own tripod, and his holy tree; Skill'd in the wing'd inhabitants of air, What auspices their notes and flights declare: O say —for all religious rites portend A happy voyage, and a prosp'rous end; And ev'ry power and omen of the sky Direct my course for destin'd Italy; But only dire Celaeno, from the gods, A dismal famine fatally forebodes O say what dangers I am first to shun, What toils vanquish, and what course to run.'†
Book 3omen = sign of something about to happen
- Scarce landed, the first omens I beheld Were four white steeds that cropp'd the flow'ry field.†
Book 3omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- From this ill-omen'd hour in time arose Debate and death, and all succeeding woes.†
Book 4 *
- These flames, from far, may the false Trojan view; These boding omens his base flight pursue!†
Book 4omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- The Dardan prince put on a smiling face, And strain'd Acestes with a close embrace; Then, hon'ring him with gifts above the rest, Turn'd the bad omen, nor his fears confess'd.†
Book 5omen = sign of something about to happen
- The speech had omen, that the Trojan race Should find repose, and this the time and place.†
Book 7
- Then they, whose mothers, frantic with their fear, In woods and wilds the flags of Bacchus bear, And lead his dances with dishevel'd hair, Increase the clamor, and the war demand, (Such was Amata's interest in the land,) Against the public sanctions of the peace, Against all omens of their ill success.†
Book 7omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- When thirty rolling years have run their race, Thy son Ascanius, on this empty space, Shall build a royal town, of lasting fame, Which from this omen shall receive the name.†
Book 8omen = sign of something about to happen
- Shouts from the land give omen to their course, And the pitch'd vessels glide with easy force.†
Book 8
- A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black, Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back; Owls, ravens, all ill omens of the night, Here built their nests, and hither wing'd their flight.†
Book 8omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- My goddess mother, whose indulgent care Foresaw the dangers of the growing war, This omen gave, when bright Vulcanian arms, Fated from force of steel by Stygian charms, Suspended, shone on high: she then foreshow'd Approaching fights, and fields to float in blood.†
Book 8omen = sign of something about to happen
- With joy, these happy omens I obey, And follow to the war the god that leads the way.†
Book 9omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- Unknowing of the cause, The chief admires their speed, and happy omens draws.†
Book 10
- Firm thy own omens; lead us on to fight; And let thy Phrygians conquer in thy right.†
Book 10
- Great Theron fell, an omen of the fight; Great Theron, large of limbs, of giant height.†
Book 10omen = sign of something about to happen
- Then Numitor from his dead brother drew Th' ill-omen'd spear, and at the Trojan threw: Preventing fate directs the lance awry, Which, glancing, only mark'd Achates' thigh.†
Book 10
- Turnus shall fall extended on the plain, And, in this omen, is already slain.†
Book 11omen = sign of something about to happen
- Then fixing on the queen his ardent eyes, Firm to his first intent, he thus replies: "O mother, do not by your tears prepare Such boding omens, and prejudge the war.†
Book 12omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- Ye gods, I take your omen, and obey.†
Book 12omen = sign of something about to happen
- Juturna from afar beheld her fly, And knew th' ill omen, by her screaming cry And stridor of her wings.†
Book 12
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(omen) a sign of something about to happen
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)