Aeneid 74-89

Question 1

Nunc media Aenean secum per moenia ducit

Answer 1

Now she brings Aeneas with her to the middle of the city

Question 2

Sidoniasque ostentat opes urbemque paratam

Answer 2

And shows him the Sidonian wealth and the city, prepared

Question 3

Incipit effari mediaque in voce resistit;

Answer 3

And 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 banquets

Question 5

Iliacosque iterum demens audire labores

Answer 5

And madly demands to hear the Trojan struggles again

Question 6

Exposcit pendetque iterum narrantis ab ore

Answer 6

And again hangs in the words of Aeneas speaking

Question 7

Post ubi digressi, lumenque obscure vicissim

Answer 7

Afterwards, having departed, and the gloomy moon in turn

Question 8

luna permit suadentque cadentia sidera somnos,

Answer 8

suppresses its light and the falling stars persuade sleep

Question 9

sola domo maeret vacus stratisque relictis

Answer 9

alone in the empty house she grieves and on the bed coverings she lies

Question 10

incubat. illum absens absentem auditque videtque,

Answer 10

absent from him, she sees and hears that man, absent

Question 11

aut gremio Ascanium genitores imagine capta

Answer 11

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

Question 12

detainer, infandum si fallere possit amorem

Answer 12

if only she might be able to deceive her unspeakable love

Question 13

non coeptae adsurgunt turres, non arma Juventus

Answer 13

the twoers begun do not rise up, the youth do not exxercise with weapons

Question 14

exercet portusue aut propugnacula bello

Answer 14

or prepare ports or battlements, safe for war

Question 15

tuta parant: pendent opera interrupta minaeque

Answer 15

the interrupted projects hang and

Question 16

murorum ingentes aequataque machina caelo

Answer 16

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