Book Two

Question 1

Like a slight puff of air, as a dream flutters off from a dreamer

Answer 1

Par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno

Question 2

In the grief you bid me renew

Answer 2

iubes renovare dolorem

Question 3

Salted meal, ribboned bands for my temples

Answer 3

Salsae fruges et circum tempora vittae

Question 4

And first each serpent enfolds in its embrace the small bodies of his two sons

Answer 4

Et primum parva duorum copora natorum serpens amplexus uter

Question 5

Then, father, show us an augural sign that this was a true omen

Answer 5

Aspice nos, hoctatum, et, si pietate meremur

Question 6

While you don’t win a glorious name if you punish a woman, here is a victory earning its own special kind of approval

Answer 6

Namque etsi nullum memorabile nomen femina in poena est, nec habet Victoria laudem

Question 7

Set the weight of your limbs upon my neck…let little Iulus walk alongside

Answer 7

Cervici imponere nostrae; ipse subibo umeris…mihi parvus Iulus sit comes

Question 8

Neptune is shaking foundations and toppling walls with his mighty trident

Answer 8

Neptunus muros magnoque emota tridenti fundamenta quantit fotamque a sedibus urbem eruit