Vocabulary
amor, amōris (m.)
love
In what meter is the Aeneid composed?
Dactylic Hexameter
Translate:
Extemplō Libyae magnās it Fāma per urbēs
Immediately Rumor goes through the great cities of Libya
The Aeneid belongs to which genre of Roman poetry?
Epic
Name one other piece of literature written by Vergil.
Options include: Eclogues or Georgics (bucolics)
horrendus, -a, -um
terrible
Poetic feet can either be a _____ or a ______ depending on the number of syllables and stress pattern.
Translate:
spēluncam Dīdō dux et Troiānus eandem dēveniunt.
Dido and the Trojan leader go down into the same cave.
The Aeneid is a combination of themes found in what two other ancient poems?
Iliad and Odyssey
In what year was Vergil born?
70 BCE
auris, -is (f.)
ear
The final two feet in a line of the Aeneid is usually this metrical pattern.
Dactyl then a spondee
Translate:
nocte volat caelī mediō terraque per umbram strīdēns
At night she flies, hissing, in the middle of the sky and land through shadow
Dido is the queen of which city?
Carthage
What was Virgil's cause of death?
Disease/fever
inrītō, -āre
to provoke
What is the term for when a vowel sound at the end of a word is omitted when the next word begins with a vowel?
Elision
Translate:
neque enim speciē fāmāve movētur nec iam fūrtīvum Dīdō meditātur amōrem
For she was neither moved by appearance or her reputation, and she no longer considers the love secret
Terra (Earth)
What was the name of Vergil's literary patron?
Maecenas
perhibeō, -ēre, -uī, itus
to say
Scan the following line:
tot linguae, totidem ōra sonant, tot subrigit aurīs.
S D D S D S
Translate:
pariter facta atque īnfecta canēbat: vēnisse Aenēān Troiānō sanguine crētum
She was singing equally about truth and lies: that Aeneas had come born from Trojan blood.
What is Dido's dead husband's name?
Sychaeus
What did Vergil reportedly want done to the Aeneid after his death?
He wanted the book burned