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Urbs antiqua fuit (Tyrii tenuere coloni) Karthago, Italiam contra Tibernaque longe ostia, dives opum studiisque asperrima belli.
What is "There was an ancient city, Carthage ( the Tyrian settlers held (it)), opposite italy and far from the mouths of the Tiber river, rich in resources and very savage in the pursuits of war"
100
The difference between synchesis and chiasmus.
What is "Chiasmus is ABBA form (think of a chasm), synchesis is ABAB form (think of nsync)"
100
motivated to side against the Trojans because of Paris’s judgement that her half-sister was the most beautiful among the goddesses
Who is Minerva?
100
Pietas, Pietatis
What is "Devotion"?
100
Where is the gate to the underworld located?
Where is Cumae?
200
O lux Dardaniae, spes o fidissima Teucrum, quae tantae tenuere morae? Quibus Hector ab oris expectate venis?
What is "Oh light of Troy, Oh most faithful hope of the trojans, what such great delays held (you)? Oh Hector, having been awaited, from which shores do you come?"
200
Aenean fundantem arces ac tecta novantem
What is "Chiasmus"
200
_________ was the mastermind behind the Trojan horse; _________ built it; __________ sold the plan to the Trojans through lies.
Who are Ulysses, Epeos, and Sinon (respectively)?
200
What are three verbs that take a dative object?
What are "credo, faveo, noceo, pareo, persuadeo, resisto, studeo"?
200
There is a certain belt that has huge significance in the story: Explain its significance.
What is "When Turnus kills Pallas, the son of king Evander, Turnus strips off the boy’s baldric as a symbol of his victory. Later on when Aeneas has got Turnus trapped, and is deciding whether he should let Turnus live, the sight of this belt is what finally pushes Aeneas to kill Turnus."
300
Aut hoc inclusi ligno occultantur Achiui, aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros, inspectura domos uenturaque desuper urbi, aut aliquis latet error; equo ne credite, Teucri.
What is "Either Greeks, hidden in the wood, are concealed, or this machine has been made against our walls, about to look into our houses or about to come to our city from above, or some trick is hidden; Trojans, do not trust the horse"
300
Hae linquunt, illae remis vada livida verrunt
What is "Asyndeton"
300
Priam’s son who was killed before Priam himself died
Who is Polites?
300
situs, situs
What is "decay , neglect"?
300
Why and how does Amata kill herself?
What is "She sees the Trojans winning, and she thinks that it is all her fault, so she hangs herself. "?
400
Qualis apes aestate nova per florea rura exercet sub sole labor, cum gentis adultos educunt fetus, aut cum liquentia mella stipant et dulci distendunt nectare cellas
What is "Just as such work occupies the bees in early summer through the flowery countryside(s) under the sun, when they lead out the mature offspring of the race, or when they pack tightly flowing honey(s) and fill up the walls with sweet nectar."
400
Name the two things that the many spirits waiting at the Styx are compared to.
What is "Leaves falling in autumn and birds flying south in the winter."
400
What are the names of the winds?
Who are Aquilo, Eurus, Notus, and Zephyrus
400
freno, frenare
What is "restrain"?
400
Name three scenes on the shield that Juno gives to her son
What is "Romulus and Remus being nursed by the mother wolf, the rape of the Sabines, the killing of Mettus, Porsenna attacking Rome, the battle of Actium, and the defeat of the Gauls."
500
Cum mihi se, non ante oculis tam clara, videndam obtulit et pura per noctem in luce refulsit alma parens, confessa deam qualisque videri caelicolis et quanta solet,
What is "When (my) gracious parent, not before so bright to (my) eyes, presented herself to be seen by me and gleamed though the night in pure light, having revealed (herself) as a goddess both of such a kind and how great she is accustomed to be seen by the gods."
500
What is the literary device found in this passage? hinc mihi prima malis labes, hinc semper Vlixes criminibus terrere nouis, hinc spargere uoces in uulgum ambiguas et quaerere conscius arma. nec requieuit enim, donec Calchante ministro—
What is "aposiopesis"?
500
_______________, the king of __________ in __________ who Aeneas mentions as proof of the Trojans’ story upon first telling it to Dido and her court in Carthage.
Who is Acestes, the king of Drepanum in Sicily?
500
Name the three different adjectives that Vergil uses synonymous to “Carthaginian”?
What are "Tyrius, Sidonius, Phoenissa"
500
Who does Aeneas see in the Mourning Fields besides Dido? Name 3.
Who are "Phaedra, Procris, Eriphyle, Evadne, Pasiphae, Laodamia, and Caeneus"?