See caput in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "“[I consider] my son Ascanius, and my wronging of his dear life’s summit, [how] I deprive him of his Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.”\n(Ascanius will become a legendary king and ancestor of the gens Julia.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.354–355",
"roman": "quem rēgnō Hesperiae fraudō et fātālibus arvīs.”",
"text": "“… mē puer Ascanius capitisque iniūria cārī,",
"translation": "“[I consider] my son Ascanius, and my wronging of his dear life’s summit, [how] I deprive him of his Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.”\n(Ascanius will become a legendary king and ancestor of the gens Julia.)"
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"ref": "23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 1.1",
"text": "nunc ad aquae lēne caput sacrae.",
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"text": "[…] omnibus pollicitationibus ac praemiis deposcunt qui belli initium faciant et sui capitis periculo Galliam in libertatem vindicent.",
"translation": "and by every sort of promises and rewards, they earnestly solicit some to begin the war, and assert the freedom of Gaul at the hazard of their lives."
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"text": "ut mea Rōma caput orbis terrārum sit",
"translation": "that my Rome shall be the capital of the world"
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"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 8.4",
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{
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"english": "“[I consider] my son Ascanius, and my wronging of his dear life’s summit, [how] I deprive him of his Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.”\n(Ascanius will become a legendary king and ancestor of the gens Julia.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.354–355",
"roman": "quem rēgnō Hesperiae fraudō et fātālibus arvīs.”",
"text": "“… mē puer Ascanius capitisque iniūria cārī,",
"translation": "“[I consider] my son Ascanius, and my wronging of his dear life’s summit, [how] I deprive him of his Hesperian kingdom and destined fields.”\n(Ascanius will become a legendary king and ancestor of the gens Julia.)"
}
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"english": "now by some gentle river's sacred spring.",
"ref": "23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 1.1",
"text": "nunc ad aquae lēne caput sacrae.",
"translation": "now by some gentle river's sacred spring."
}
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"text": "[…] omnibus pollicitationibus ac praemiis deposcunt qui belli initium faciant et sui capitis periculo Galliam in libertatem vindicent.",
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"text": "ut mea Rōma caput orbis terrārum sit",
"translation": "that my Rome shall be the capital of the world"
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"english": "seeing that we acknowledge Rome to be the capital of Latium",
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