Arma uirumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris. Italiam fato profugus Lauiniaque uenit litora . . . Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by Fate,

Arma uirumque cano troie qui primus ab oris. The consonants of the verse are used first, followed by the rest of the alphabet: RMQCNTPSB DFGHLXYZ

Aeneid's Arma uirumque, which is of course a thematic juxtaposition of Homer's Μῆνιν Arma uirumque vis-à-vis its Homeric models (for a number of very

It is quite in vain for the author of In uirumque paratus (both versions, 1849 as well as 1869), of the address to Pausanias in

in Tyrios arma uirumque toros), he turns the opening words of the Aeneid 45 Arma uirumque ('arms and a man') = uirum armatum ('an armed (i.e.,

the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid imply (arma uirumque, .). In the. Annales, the earliest Latin hexameter epic (?– ), Ennius attrib

'D. thinks that his system has some applicability to Latin too, and that in arma uirumque cano there was not, as we all suppose, any clash on cano between

crediderim: uer illud erat, uer magnus agebat orbis et hibernis parcebant flatibus Euri, cum primae lucem pecudes hausere, uirumque

Original spelling arma uirumque cano Troiae qui primus ab oris For how scholars make informed inferences about Latin phonemes and syllables,

Semiquinariam arma uirumque cano, et semi- septenariam arma uirumque cano Troiae . arma uirumque cano Troiae qui terruit urbem.