115-127: Juno's second speech

Question 1

regia

Answer 1

the opening of her speech is marked by royal pomposity and self-importance

Question 2

mecum erit iste labor

Answer 2

dismissive of Venus’ concerns regarding Jupiter’s wishes, which indicates Juno has been fooled by Venus’ mock submission

‘erit’: future active indicative; Juno has no intention of consulting with Jupiter until after her plan is in full motion

Question 3

ratione

Answer 3

Juno is methodical and calculating

Question 4

(adverte)

Answer 4

forceful didactic imperative

Question 5

docebo

Answer 5

1st person: Juno attempts to take ownership of the situation; didactic verb - J tries to impose herself on V

Question 6

miserrima Dido

Answer 6

meaning is ambiguous - accusatory towards Venus’ or simply pitiful? Also, potentially foreshadowing her fate

Question 7

extulerit Titan radiisque retexerit

Answer 7

complex pattern of alliteration, assonance and homoiteleuta: Juno is effectively doing the narrator’s job of setting a vivid scene, which underscores her divine power

Question 8

retexerit

Answer 8

creates a polyptoton with ‘tegentur’ in line 123: Juno opposes the divine force of Titan (day) with the ‘cover’ of night

Question 9

ego

Answer 9

reiterates her importance in conducting the events

Question 10

nigrantem commixta grandine nimbum

Answer 10

iconic chiasmus (by case alliteration) where the hail is textually contained inside the cloud: her control of the elements emphasises her power

Question 11

ego… nimbum

Answer 11

vast hyperbaton of subject-accusative reflects the size of her ego

Question 12

cingunt

Answer 12

mortal entrapping reflects Juno’s divine entrapping

Question 13

infundam… ciebo

Answer 13

more first person verbs to convey her crucial role

Question 14

infundam-et… caelum-omne

Answer 14

elisions enact pouring rain and resounding thunder

Question 15

120+122

Answer 15

textually description of weather wraps hunting scene, also reflecting the entrapment

Question 16

nocte tegentur opaca

Answer 16

nocte & opaca cover tegentur, enacting its meaning

Question 17

speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem

Answer 17

speluncam & eandem frame the line and enact the cave sheltering the two

Question 18

Dido dux et

Answer 18

postponing of ‘et’ means Dido and dux are placed together, appears that the title applies to Dido, elevating her and slighting Aeneas, reinforced by the dental alliteration

Question 19

devenient

Answer 19

pause after enjambment gives Venus and the reader time to appreciate her plot to the full

Question 20

adero… iungam… dicabo

Answer 20

tricolon of first-person verbs again emphasises J’s role in the events

Question 21

voluntas

Answer 21

pseudo-diplomatic and regal as she pretends to want V’s consent

Question 22

stabili

Answer 22

ironic, given the short-lived nature of their marriage, which is ominous and foreshadowing

Question 23

dolis

Answer 23

implies deception and has an underlying echo of the ‘dolor’ that will result from this doomed plan

Question 24

risit

Answer 24

ironic because Juno has been trying to kill Aeneas, yet the issue has been resolved with a marriage

the goddess of marriage has engineered what is anything but a traditional, legitimate marriage, and would under normal circumstances not be condoned even by herself

an appreciation of Juno’s wiliness