Lines 223-253

Question 1

(223) Et iam finis erat, cum Iuppiter aethere summon

Answer 1

And now it was complete, when Jupiter, from the heights of the air,

Question 2

(224) despiciens mare velivolum terrasque iacentis

Answer 2

looking down on the sea with its flying sails and the lands

Question 3

(225) litoraque et latos populous, sic vertice caeli

Answer 3

and the coasts and the people far and wide, paused in this way

Question 4

(226) constitit, et Libyae defixit lumina regnis.

Answer 4

at the summit of heaven, and fixed his eyes on the Libyan kingdom.

Question 5

(227) Atque illum talis iactantem pectore curas

Answer 5

And considering such cares in his heart, Venus spoke

Question 6

(228) tristior et lacrimis oculos suffusa nitentis

Answer 6

to him, rather saddened and her bright eyes brimming with tears:

Question 7

(229) adloquitur Venus: ‘O qui res hominumque deumque

Answer 7

‘Oh you who govern things human and divine, with eternal rule,

Question 8

(230) aeternis regis imperiis, et fulmine terres,

Answer 8

and who terrifies with your lightening-bolt,

Question 9

(231) quid meus Aeneas in te committere tantum,

Answer 9

what so great thing can my Aeneas have done to you,

Question 10

(232) quid Troes potuere, quibus, tot funera passis,

Answer 10

what could the Trojans have done, who have suffered so much destruction,

Question 11

(233) cunctus ob Italiam terrarium clauditur orbis?

Answer 11

from whom the whole world is closed off, for the sake of the Italian lands?

Question 12

(234) Certe hinc Romanos olim, volventibus annis,

Answer 12

Surely it was promised some time ago that from here, as the years are rolling by,

Question 13

(235) hinc fore ductores, revocato a sanguine Teucri,

Answer 13

the Romans would rise from them as leaders, restored form Teucer’s blood,

Question 14

(236) qui mare, qui terras omni dicione tenerent,

Answer 14

who would hold power over the sea, and all the lands.

Question 15

(237) pollicitus, quae te, genitor, sententia vertit?

Answer 15

Father, what thought has changed your mind?

Question 16

(238) Hoc equidem occasum Troiae tristisque ruinas

Answer 16

With this (promise) indeed I consoled myself for the fall of Troy, and its sad ruin,

Question 17

(239) solabar, fatis contraria fata rependens;

Answer 17

weighing one destiny, against opposing destinies:

Question 18

(240) nunc eadem fortuna viros tot casibus actos

Answer 18

now the same (mis)fortune follows these men driven on by so many

Question 19

(241) insequitur. Quen das finem, rex magne, laborum?

Answer 19

disasters. Great king, what end to their efforts will you give?

Question 20

(242) Antenor potuit, mediis elapsus Achivis,

Answer 20

Antenor, safe, having escaped through the middle of the Greeks,

Question 21

(243) Illyricos penetrare sinus, atque intima tutus

Answer 21

was able to enter the Illyrian gulfs, and deep into the realms

Question 22

(244) regna Liburnorum, et fontem superare Timavi,

Answer 22

of the Liburnians, and overcome the founts of TImavus

Question 23

(245) unde per ora novem vasto cum murmure montis

Answer 23

from where the river emerges in a burst, with a huge mountainous roar,

Question 24

(246) it mare proruptum et pelago permit arva sonanti.

Answer 24

through nine mouths, and buries the fields under its noisy flood.

Question 25

(247) Hic tamen ille urbem Patavi sedesque locavit

Answer 25

Here, nonetheless, he located the city of Padua and homes

Question 26

(248) Teucrorum, et genti nomen dedit, armaque fixit

Answer 26

for Teucrians, and gave the people a name, and hung up

Question 27

(249) Troia; nun placida compostus pace quiescit;

Answer 27

the arms of Troy: now settled, he lives quietly in tranquil peace.

Question 28

(250) nos, tua progenies, caeli quibus adnuis arcem,

Answer 28

(But) we, your race, to whom you grant the heights of heaven,

Question 29

(251) navibus (infandum!) amissis, unius ob iram

Answer 29

lost our ships (shameful!), we are betrayed because of one person’s anger,

Question 30

(252) prodimur atque Italis longe disiungimur oris.

Answer 30

and kept far away from the shores of Italy.

Question 31

(253) Hic peitatis honos? Sic nos in sceptra reponis?”

Answer 31

Is this the prize for virtue? Is this how you restore our rule?”