Extract 18

Question 1

/ instant ardentes Tyrii pars ducere muros, /

Answer 1

/ The eager Tyrians press on, part of them make walls,

Question 2

/ molirique arcem et manibus subvolvere saxa, /

Answer 2

and amassing the citadel and rolling rocks up with their hands

Question 3

/ pars optare locum tecto et concludere sulco. /

Answer 3

some choose a place for a house and inclose it with a trench

Question 4

/ [iura magistratusque legunt sanctumque senatum;] /

Answer 4

[They choose laws and officials and the sacred senate. ]

Question 5

/ hic portus alii effodiunt; hic lata theatris / fundamenta locant alii,

Answer 5

Some here are digging out a port, here others are placing the deep foundations for theatres,

Question 6

, immanisque columnas / rupibus excidunt scaenis decora alta futuris. /

Answer 6

, and cutting out huge columns from the rocks, the high decorations for future stages. /