aeneid sentence learning (lines 34 - 57)

Question 1

vix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum vela dabant laetie et spumas salis aere ruebant

Answer 1

scarcely out of sight of the land of Sicily, [the trojans] were setting sail happily onto the high seas and were churning up the foam of the salt sea with their prows

Question 2

cum Iuno aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus haec secum:

Answer 2

when Juno, retaining the everlasting wound under her breast (said) these things within herself:

Question 3

‘mene incepto desistere victam nec posse Italia Teucorum averte regem!

Answer 3

to think that I, defeated, should give up and not be able to divert the King of the Trojans from Italy

Question 4

quippe vetor fatis

Answer 4

of course i am forbidden by the Fates

Question 5

pallasne exurere classem Argivum atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto unius ob noxam et furias Aiacis Oilei?

Answer 5

was Pallas able to burn up the fleet of the Greeks and drown (the Greeks) themselves in the sea because of the offence of one man and the madness of Ajax, son of Oileus

Question 6

ipsa Iovis rapidum iaulata e nubibus ingem disiecitque rates evertitque aequora ventis

Answer 6

she hurling the swift fire of Jupiter from the clouds both scattered the ships and upturned the sea with the wind

Question 7

illum exspirantem transfixo pectore flammas turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto;

Answer 7

while he breathed flames from his pierced breast she stretched up in a whirlwind and impaled on a sharp rock

Question 8

ast ego, quae divum incendo regina Iovisque et soror et conjunx, una cum gente tot anos bella gero,

Answer 8

But I, who grandly walk as queen of the gods and both sister and wife of Jupiter, have waged wars for so many years with on race

Question 9

et quisquam numen Iunonis adorat praeterea aut supplex aris imponent honorem?’

Answer 9

and does anyone worship the divine power of Juno any more or as a suppliant will (anyone) place an offering on her altar

Question 10

talia flammato secum dea corde volutans nimborum in patriam, loca feta furentibus Austris, Aeoliam venit.

Answer 10

The goddess turning such things over with herself in her inflamed heart came to the land of the clouds, Aeolia, a place teeming with raging South winds

Question 11

hic vasto rex Aeolus antro lucantes ventos tempestatesque sonoras imperio premit ac vinclis et carcere frenat.

Answer 11

here King Aeolus with supreme power confined the struggling winds and surrounding storms in a huge cave and curbed (them) with chains and in a prison

Question 12

ill indignantes magno cum murmere montis circum claustra fremunt

Answer 12

they indignant roar around the prison bars with the great murmur of a mountain

Question 13

celsa sedet Aeolus arce sceptra tenens mollitque animos et temperat iras

Answer 13

Aeolus sits in his lofty citadel holding the sceptre and soothes their feelings and restrains their anger