Vocab
Define the following adjectives:
placido, infandos, omnia, nullo, tanti
calm, unspeakable, all, no, such great
What is the case of tanti belli?
Quis genus Aeneadum, quis Troiae nesciat urbem,
virtutesque virosque, aut tanti incendia belli?
genitive (singular)
What literary device is found in ferro?
Non nos aut ferro Libycos populare Penatis
venimus, aut raptas ad litora vertere praedas;
Metonymy
Identify the following terms as Carthaginian, Trojan, or Italian.
Teucri, Poeni, Libycos, Aeneadum, Hesperia, Saturnia, Tros, Tyrius
Teucri, Tros, Aeneadum: Trojan
Poeni, Libycos, Tyrius: Carthaginian
Hesperia, Saturnia: Italian
prohibe infandos a navibus ignis,
parce pio generi, et propius res aspice nostras.
Keep away unspeakable fires from (our) ships,
Spare (our) pious nation, and look at our things/situation more closely.
Define the following verbs:
frenare, vertere, gestamus, dimittam
to restrain/check, to turn, to wage, to send away
What is the tense and mood of nesciat?
Quis genus Aeneadum, quis Troiae nesciat urbem,
virtutesque virosque, aut tanti incendia belli?
What literary device is found in the word order in this line? Explain.
Solvite corde metum, Teucri, secludite curas.
Synchesis
Solvite and secludite are verbs/imperatives.
Metum and curas are nouns/accusative direct objects.
Who is the king of the gods whom Ilioneus says bestowed such great honors and leadership upon Dido?
Jupiter
Non nos venimus raptas ad litora vertere praedas;
We do not come to turn the snatched plunder (the plunder having been snatched) to the shores.
Define the following nouns:
silvis, regnis, navibus, metum, fines
woods/forest, kingdom, ship, fear, border/territory
What is the tense and mood of dimittam?
sive Erycis finis regemque optatis Acesten,
auxilio tutos dimittam, opibusque iuvabo.
Future indicative
What literary device is found in Noto?
Atque utinam rex ipse Noto compulsus eodem adforet Aeneas!
Personification (the North Wind is portrayed as a monster that would attack Aeneas at sea)
Who was Pygmalion?
From where did Dido flee Pygmalion?
Whom did Pygmalion murder?
Pygmalion was Dido's brother.
Dido fled Phoenicia to avoid Pygmalion.
Pygmalion killed Dido's husband Sychaeus, in Phoenicia.
Solvite corde metum, Teucri, secludite curas.
Loosen/release the fear from (your) heart, Trojans, set aside/shut out (your) cares/worries/anxieties.
Define the following verbs:
agetur, profatur, cogunt, optatis
to treat, to speak, to compel/force, to want/wish/desire
What is the tense, voice, and form of compulsus?
Atque utinam rex ipse Noto compulsus eodem
adforet Aeneas!
Perfect passive participle (having been driven)
How many elisions are found in this line? What do you think the effect of this is in this context?
dimittam et Libyae lustrare extrema iubebo
2 (dimittam...et/lustrare...extrema)
The 'i' in 'iubebo' functions as the 'j' consonant, so that is not an elision.
In this passage, Dido talks about Aeneas being lost and wandering the beaches and forests of Carthage. The elisions enhances this idea of scrambling through the unknown.
Who was Iarbas?
Why did Dido avoid him?
Iarbas was king of a North African tribe (Gaetulia).
Iarbas was a suitor of Dido. She rejected him and instead fell in love with Aeneas.
Quis genus Aeneadum, quis Troiae nesciat urbem,
virtutesque virosque, aut tanti incendia belli?
Who may not know the nation of Aeneas/the Trojans, who may not know the city of Troy, and the virtues/courage and the men, or the fires of such a great war?
Define the following adverbs:
sic, late, pariter, tam
in such a way/thus, widely, equally, so
What is the form of moliri and tueri?
Res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt
moliri, et late finis custode tueri.
Present deponent infinitives (they look present passive, but translate present active)
Explain the literary device found in the word order of this line.
Seu vos Hesperiam magnam Saturniaque arva
Chiasmus
Hesperiam and arva: nouns
Magnam and Saturnia: adjectives
According to lines 575-578, how does Dido respond to the possibility that Aeneas is still alive?
Atque utinam rex ipse Noto compulsus eodem
adforet Aeneas! Equidem per litora certos
dimittam et Libyae lustrare extrema iubebo,
si quibus eiectus silvis aut urbibus errat.
Dido hopes Aeneas is alive!
She says she will send her people out into the farthest parts of Libya, the forests and cities to look for Aeneas.
certos dimittam et Libyae lustrare extrema iubebo,
si quibus eiectus silvis aut urbibus errat.'
I will send and I will order certain (people) to survey the farthest (parts) of Libya,
if he (Aeneas) having been cast/thrown out wanders in any forests or cities.