Aeneid 4.74-89

Question 1

nunc media Aenean secum per moenia ducit

Answer 1

Now she leads aeneas with her to the middle of the city

Question 2

Sidoniasque ostentat opes urbemque paratam,

Answer 2

she shows him the Sidonian wealth and the city, prepared,

Question 3

incipit effari mediaque in voce resistit;

Answer 3

she begins to speak and in the middle of a word she stops;

Question 4

nunc eadem labente die convivia quaerit,

Answer 4

now with the day waning, she seeks the same feasts

Question 5

Iliacosque iterum demens audire labores

Answer 5

and crazy she demands to hear the Trojan struggles again

Question 6

exposcit pendetque iterum narrantis ab ore.

Answer 6

and she again hangs on the words of Aeneas speaking.

Question 7

ost ubi digressi, lumenque obscura vicissim

Answer 7

Afterwards, when all have departed, and the gloomy mood in turn

Question 8

luna premit suadentque cadentia sidera somnos,

Answer 8

suppresses its light and the falling stars persuade sleep

Question 9

sola domo maeret vacua stratisque relictis

Answer 9

alone in the house she grieves on the bed coverings left behind

Question 10

incubat. illum absens absentem auditque videtque,

Answer 10

she lies. Absent from him, she see and hears that man, absent

Question 11

aut gremio Ascanium genitoris imagine capta

Answer 11

or seized by the image of her father she holds Acscnusu in her lap

Question 11

detinet, infandum si fallere possit amorem.

Answer 11

if only she might be able to deceive her unspeakable love.

Question 12

non coeptae adsurgunt turres, non arma iuventus

Answer 12

The towers having begun do not rise up, the youth do not exercise with weapons

Question 13

exercet portusve aut propugnacula bello

Answer 13

or prepare ports of battlements, safe for war

Question 14

tuta parant: pendent opera interrupta minaeque

Answer 14

the interrupted projects hang and

Question 15

murorum ingentes aequataque machina caelo.

Answer 15

huge heights of the walls and the scaffolding made equal to heavens