Aeneid 4

Question 0

undique enim densa Teucri inclusere corona
atque hinc vasta palus, hinc ardua moenia cingunt.

Answer 0

For the Trojans surrounded [him] on all sides in a crowded ring, and on this side a broad marsh, on that high walls enclose [him].

Question 1

ergo amens diversa fuga petit aequora Turnus
et nunc huc, inde huc incertos implicat orbis;

Answer 1

Therefore Turnus, demented, makes for different places in flight, and now to here, then to there, he winds about in doubtful circles;

Question 2

nec minus Aeneas, quamquam tardata sagitta 
interdum genua impediunt cursumque recusant,
 insequitur trepidique pedem pede fervidus urget:

Answer 2

Nor any less did Aeneas pursue [him], although his knees, impeded by the arrow, sometimes restrained [him] and held back his running, and ablaze, on foot he presses hard upon the heels of the hurrying [Turnus].

Question 3

inclusum veluti si quando flumine nactus
 cervum aut puniceae saeptum formidine pennae venator cursu canis et latratibus instat;


Answer 3

Just as if when a hunting dog, having found a stag encircled by a river, or hedged in by the trap of crimson feather[s], presses upon [him] with running and with barking:

Question 4

ille autem insidiis et ripa territus alta
 mille fugit refugitque vias, at vividus Umber haeret hians, iam iamque tenet similisque tenenti increpuit malis morsuque elusus inani est;

Answer 4

while he, frightened by the trap and a high bank, flees and flees back a thousand ways. But the lively Umbrian [dog], gaping, sticks close, and right now is holding and as if [he is already] holding has snapped with his jaws and has been foiled with an empty bite;

Question 5

tum vero exoritur clamor ripaeque lacusque
 responsant circa et caelum tonat omne tumultu.

Answer 5

then indeed a din arises, and the banks and the lakes around reply, and all heaven thunders with an uproar.