Translation
Mene fugis?
Do you flee me?
Baccho audito
ablative absolute
Aenean
accusative masculine singular
qualis commotis excita sacris Thyias
simile
Who is "interpres divum"?
Mercury
te propter eundem exstinctus pudor et, qua sola sidera adibam, fama prior
On account of (the same) you (also), my honor and my former reputation, by which alone I was approaching the stars, have been destroyed.
Nostrae secum ferat omina mortis.
jussive subjunctive
ruat
3rd person singular present active subjunctive
nec te noster amor nec te data dextera quondam nec moritura tenet crudeli funere Dido
tricolon, anaphora, polysyndeton
Who is the rainbow goddess, the messenger of Juno who frees Dido's soul from her body?
Iris
Me si fata meis paterentur ducere vitam / auspiciis et sponte mea componere curas, / urbem Troianam primum dulcesque meorum / reliquias colerem...
If the fates were allowing me to lead (my) life by my own authority and to compose my cares of my own will, I would first cultivate the Trojan city and the sweet remnants of my people...
Hortatory subjunctive
labentis
present active participle, genitive singular (feminine)
te propter Libycae gentes Nomadumque tyranni odere
anastrophe
Pygmalion
Date, vulnera lymphis / abluam et, extremus si quis super halitus errat, / ore legam.
Give, so that I may wash (her) wounds with water and, if any last breath wanders above, (that) I may gather (it) with my mouth.
si non arva aliena domosque ignotas peteres...Troia per undosum peteretur classibus aequor?
contrary to present fact condition
extinxti
Ergo Iris croceis per caelum roscida pennis
synchesis
What is the modified form of parvulus called?
a diminutive
Tempus erat quo prima quies mortalibus aegris / incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit.
It was the time in which first quiet begins for weary mortals and, as a gift of the gods, creeps in most pleasing. (Book 2)
Quid primum deserta querar?
deliberative question
miserere
sin absumpta salus, et te, pater optime Teucrum, pontus habet... (Book 1)
apostrophe = a sudden break from the narrative for an address, in the second person, of a person or object, absent or present
Who was Dido's first husband?
Sychaeus