Lines 305-324

Question 1

(305) At pius Aeneas, per noctem plurima volvens,

Answer 1

But dutiful Aeneas, turning many things over through the night,

Question 2

(306) ut primum lux alma data est, exire locosque

Answer 2

as soon as kindly dawn has delivered decides, to go out

Question 3

(307) explorare novos, quas vento accesserit oras,

Answer 3

and explore the new place, to find what shores he has reached on the wind,

Question 4

(308) qui teneant, nam inculta videt, hominesne feraene,

Answer 4

who owns them (for he sees desert) man or beast,

Question 5

(309) quaerere constituit, sociisque exacta referre.

Answer 5

and bring back details to his friends.

Question 6

(310) Classem in convexo nemorum sub rupe cavata

Answer 6

He conceals the fleet in an over-hanging grove under a hollow cliff,

Question 7

(311) arboribus clausam circum atque horrentibus umbris

Answer 7

enclosed by trees and bristling shade:

Question 8

(312) occulit; ipse uno graditur comitatus Achate,

Answer 8

accompanied only by Achetes he walks,

Question 9

(313) bina manu lato crispans hastilia ferro.

Answer 9

grasping twinned broad-bladed spears in his hand.

Question 10

(314) Cui mater media sese tulit obvia silva,

Answer 10

His mother met him herself, in the middle of the trees,

Question 11

(315) virginis os habitumque gerens, et virginis arma

Answer 11

with the face and appearance of a virgin, and a virgin’s weapons,

Question 12

(316) Spartanae, vel qualis equos Threissa fatigat

Answer 12

a Spartan girl, or such a Harpalyce of Thrace,

Question 13

(317) Harpalyce, volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum.

Answer 13

she outlasts the horses, and outdoes winged Hebrus in flight.

Question 14

(318) Namque umeris de more habilem suspenderat arcum

Answer 14

For she’d slung her bow from her shoulders, according to custom,

Question 15

(319) venatrix, dederatque comam diffundere ventis,

Answer 15

like a huntress, and loosed her hair for the wind to scatter,

Question 16

(320) nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis.

Answer 16

With her knees bare, and her flowing tunic gathered up in a knot

Question 17

(321) Ac prior, “Heus” inquit “iuvenes, monstrate mearum

Answer 17

And she said first: ‘Hello, young men, tell me,

Question 18

(322) vidistis si quam hic errantem forte sororum,

Answer 18

Have you seen anything by chance of my sisters, wandering here

Question 19

(323) succinctam pharetra et maculosae tegmine lyncis,

Answer 19

wearing a quiver, and the hide of a dappled lynx,

Question 20

(324) aut spumantis apri cursum clamore prementem.”

Answer 20

Or shouting, hot on the track of a slavering boar?”