Characters
A priest of Neptune. He does not believe that the horse is a true gift and hurls a spear into the side. After, two huge sea serpents come and kill him and his two sons.
Who is Laocoon?
“luctor, lucari, lucatus sum” means
What is to struggle?
The case and use of humi in “Ille, fame rabida tria guttura pandens / corripit obiectam, actque immania terga resolvit, / fusus humi, totoque ingens extenditur antro.” (Aeneid 6.421-423)
What is Locative, location?
Find the literary device in “Aenean fundantem arces ac tecta novantem” (Aeneid 4.260)
What is Chiasmus?
Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento / (hae tibi erunt artes) pacique imponere morem, / pacere subiectis et debellare superbos. (Aeneid 6.851-853)
You Roman will remember to rule the people with power (these will be skills to you) and (remember) to impose a custom for peace, (remember) to spare the defeated and subdue the proud
The son of Achilles, who in Book 2, kills King Priam’s eldest son in front of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, then after kills King Priam at the altar.
Who is Pyrrhus?
one meaning of “ruo ruere rui rutum”
What is to rush, fall, collapse, or overturn?
The case and use of scopuloque…acuto in “illum exspirantem transfixo pectore flammas / turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto (eum);” (Aeneid 1.44-45)
What is Ablative Place Where?
Find the literary device in “sordidus ex umeris nodo dependent amictus.” (Aeneid 6.301)
What is Line Framing?
et primum parva duorum / corpora natorum serpends amplexus uterque / implicat et miseros morsu depascitur artus (Aeneid 2.213-215)
and first, each snake, having embraced the small bodies of the two sons, enfolds (them) and devours the wretched limbs with a bite.
One of Aeneas’s men died during Aeneas’s journey. In Book 6, Aeneas goes into the Underworld and sees him who tells Aeneas that he fell overboard and died, and asks Aeneas to be buried so that he can cross the River Styx. The Sibyl then tells him that people will find him and bury him properly.
Who is Palinurus?
“fundere lacrimas” means
What is to pour out tears?
The voice and tense of ulularunt in “fulsere ignes et conscius aether / conubiis summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae.” (Aeneid 4.167-168)
What is Perfect Active Indicative?
Find the literary device in “Nec me meminisse” (Aeneid 4.335)
What is Litotes?
Speluncam Dido dux et Troainus eandem / deveniunt. Prima et Tellus et pronuba Iuno / dant signum; fulsere ignes et conscius aether / conubiis summoque ulularunt vertice Nymphae. (Aeneid 4.165-168)
Dido the leader and the Trojan arrive at the same cave. Both Primal Earth and bridesmaid Juno give the signal; fires and the upper air as witness to the marriage flashed and Nymphs howled from the highest peak.
He is a Greek who showed up to the Romans with the Trojan horse and pretended to be abandoned by the Greeks, and told the Trojans a fake sob story about how he was a sacrifice to the gods by the Greeks so that they could go back home. He also adds that the wooden horse is a gift from Minerva and that they should accept it. The Trojans believe him and welcome him and the wooden horse into Troy.
Who is Sinon?
“ferre auxilium” means
What is to bring help?
The case and use of dea in “'Heu fuge, nate dea, teque his' ait 'eripe flammis.” (Aeneid 2.289)
What is Ablative of Origin?
Find the literary device in “Aspice, ut insignis spoliis Marcellus opimis” (Aeneid 6.855).
What is Synchysis?
Ergo Iris croceis per caelum roscida pennis, / mille trahens varios adverso sole colores, / devolat et supra caput astitit. (Aeneid 4.700-702)
Therefore dewy Iris, dragging a thousand different colors with the sun opposite, flies down through the sky with golden wings and stood over her head (from) above.
He was a Roman general who accomplished many things, but sadly died at a young age. Aeneas meets him in the underworld when Anchises is showing Aeneas the greatness of founding a new Troy. Anchises says that he was destined for greatness but fate wouldn’t allow him to do so.
Who is Marcellus the Younger?
“vertere animos” means
What is to change minds?
The voice and tense of memento in “Tu regere imperio populos Romane, memento / (hae tibi erunt artes) pacique imponere morem, / parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.” (Aeneid 6.851-853)
What is future imperative?
Find the literary device in “Ille simula manibus tendit divellere nodos,” (Aeneid 2.220)
What is Pleonasm?
Charon cui plurima mento / canities inculta iacet, stant lumina flamma, / sordidus ex umeris nodo dependent amictus. (Aeneid 6.299-301)
Charon, to whom very much wild white hair lies on his chin, (his) eyes stand fixed with a flame, a dirty cloak hangs down from (his) shoulders in a knot.