Translation
multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem
What is, "And he also having endured many things in war, until he could found a city" ?
Give the complete metrical pattern of the following line: "monstrum horrendum, ingens, cui quot sunt corpore plumae"
What is "Spondee, Spondee, Dactyl, Spondee, Dactyl, end".
Define accendō, accendere
What is "to inflame / stir up / burn"
This man had produced an offspring with Venus whose son is the main protagonist of the Aeneid.
Who is Anchises?
What is the literary device found on this line: “Maeoniā mentum mitrā crīnemque madentem”
What is "consonance / alliteration"
Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto
what is "scattered men swimming appear in the huge whirlpool" ?
Give the complete metrical pattern of the following line: "Quando aliud mihi iam miserae nihil ipsa reliqui"
What is "Dactyl, Dactyl, Dactyl, Dactyl, Dactyl, end" (This is a dactylic line :D)
Define comitor, comitārī, comitātus sum
What is "to accompany"
This person was the sister to a Libyan leader and was suspected by Ovid to have had an affair with Aeneas.
Who is Anna?
A literary device is found in the following phrase: “Nusquam Abero”
What is Litotes?
inspectura domos venturaque desuper urbi
what is "About to look into our homes and about to come into our city from above" ?
Give the complete metrical pattern of the following line: "Lamentis gemituque et femineo ululatu"
What is "Spondee, Dactyl, Spondee, Dactyl, Dactyl, end" (NO elision between "femineo" and "ululatu")
Define ulciscor, ulciscī, ultus sum
What is "to avenge / punish"
This Trojan elder spoke first to the leader of the Carthaginians.
Who is Ilioneus?
Including Rhetorical Question, A literary device is found the following phrase, “Vel Quae, Tiberine, videbis funera..”
What is Apostrophe?
sordidus ex umeris nodo dependet amictus
what is "A dirty cloak hangs in a knot from his shoulders"?
Give the complete metrical pattern of the following line: "praemetuens, Troiae et patriae communis Erinys"
What is "Dactyl, Spondee, Dactyl, Spondee, Dactyl, end"
Define frux, frugis, f.
What is "crops / grain"
This nymph aided in the recollection of the ships of Aeneas.
Who is Cymothoe?
A literary device is found here, “Molemque et montes insuper altos imposuit…”
What is Hendiadys?
tum silvis scaena coruscis desuper
What is “then from above (there is) a scene with trembling woods” ?
Give the complete metrical pattern of the following line: "Protinus ad regem cursus detorquet Iarban"
What is "Dactyl, Spondee, Spondee, Spondee, Spondee, end" (This is an exception to the ending of DS!)
Define alligō, alligāre
What is "to bind / hinder"
This monster was a son of Gaia, one of the beasts born from the blood of Uranus, and brother to a feathered monster which gains its strength from movement.
Who is Enceladus?
A literary device that is not Metonymy can be found here, “summersasque obrue puppes…”
What is Prolepsis?