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Vocabulary
100
This is the scansion of the first 4 feet of this line: atque hic Aeneas una namque ire videbat (6.860).
What is spondee spondee spondee spondee?
100
This event from book I opens the the epic “in medias res.”
What is the storm the Trojans face while returning from Troy?
100
This god made armor at the request of his wife.
Who is Vulcan?
100
This is the translation of “arma virumque cano.”
What is “I sing of arms and a man“? (hopefully the easiest 100 you’ll get!)
100
Navita
What is the archaic Latin noun meaning “sailor”?
200
This is the scansion of the first 4 feet of this line: continuo invadit: tu nunc Karthaginis altae (4.265).
What is dactyl spondee spondee spondee?
200
This event allowed Aeneas to enter Carthage undetected.
What is Venus shrouding him in invisible mist?
200
This character was a priest who tried to stop the Trojans from bringing to horse into their walls.
Who is Lacoon?
200
This is the translation of “iura dabat legesque viris, operumque laborem partibus aequabat iustis.”
What is “she was giving rights and laws to the men, and she was equaling the task of the projects in fair parts”?
200
Pulso
What is the Latin verb meaning “to beat”?
300
This is the scansion of the first 4 feet of this line: corripit obiectam, atque immania terga resolvit (6.422).
What is dactyl spondee spondee dactyl?
300
This event happened after a certain seer hurled a spear into a certain wooden horse.
What is the death of Laocoon at the hands of sea serpents?
300
This character was Aeneas’ helmsman that he met again in the Underworld.
Who is Palinurus?
300
This is the translation of “Exarsere ignes animo; subit ira cadentem ulcisci patriam et sceleratas sumere poenas.”
What is “The fires in my spirit flared up; a rage to avenge (my) falling country and to assign criminal punishments arose”?
300
Pavor
What is the Latin noun meaning “fear”?
400
This is the scansion of the first 4 feet of this line: arma virum, tabulaeque, et Troia gaza per undas (1.119).
What is dactyl dactyl spondee dactyl?
400
This event occurs while Aeneas joins the Arcadians as they sing and tell stories.
What is the telling of the story of Hercules and Cacus?
400
This character convinced the Trojans to bring the horse into their city walls.
Who is Sinon?
400
This is the translation of “Illa, graves oculos conata attollere, rursus deficit; infixum stridit sub pectore vulnus.”
What is “She, having tried to raise her heavy eyes, collapses again; her impaled wound hisses under her chest”?
400
Fretum
What is the Latin noun meaning “strait”?
500
This is the scansion of the first 4 feet of this line: heu fuge, nate dea, teque his' ait 'eripe flammis' (2.289).
What is dactyl dactyl spondee dactyl? (eu is one vowel)
500
This event marks the last thing Aeneas sees before exiting through the ivory gate of the underworld.
What is Anchises’ showing of the Marcelli to Aeneas?
500
These are all the women (not including gods) named in the Aeneid (of the parts we’ve read in Latin and English). There are 7 women.
Who are Dido, Anna, Helen, Creusa, the Sibyl, Lavinia, and Amata?
500
This is the translation of ‘Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera (credo equidem), vivos ducent de marmore vultus.”
What is “Some will forge bronzes breathing rather softly, (I personally believe), they will lead living faces from marble”?
500
Habeto
What is the Latin verb meaning “to make dull”?