A Ship At State + Trigger Words

Question 1

O navis

Answer 1

O ship, fresh waves will carry you back to sea again!

Question 2

O quid

Answer 2

O what’s the matter?

Question 3

fortiter

Answer 3

Boldly make for the harbour,

Question 4

nonne

Answer 4

Surely you see how your sides have been stripped bare of ores

Question 5

et

Answer 5

and how your mast has been injured by the gale from Africa, and how your sail-yards are groaning, and how without its rigging, your keep can scarcely endure the over-domineering water?

Question 6

aequor

Answer 6

None of your sails are in one piece, or are there any gods whom you can call upon again when overwhelmed by danger. Although built of pine from Pontus, a daughter of that noble forest,

Question 7

iactes

Answer 7

you can boast of your pedigree but that name is worthless: the fearful soldier puts no faith in ornate ships. You, beware if it is not your destiny to be just a plaything for the winds.

Question 8

nuper

Answer 8

You, who not long ago, were a cause of distressing weariness to me, are not now a light hearted object of love and anxiety to me, steer clear of the seas flowing between the shining Cyclades.