Lines 422-445 Virgil Set Text Flashcards
Calido…sanguine
With warm blood
Ense recluso
With the sword having been revealed
Ibat in Euryalum
He was going to attack Euryalus
Vero exterritus
Indeed terrified
Amens
Out of his mind
Conclamat
Cried out
Nec se celare tenebris…potuit
He was neither able to hide himself in the darkness
Amplius aut tantum…perferre dolorem
Nor to endure so great a pain further
Adsum qui feci
I am present who did it
In me convertite ferrum
Train your weapons onto me
Rutuli
Rutulians
Mea fraus omnis
All the responsibility/deception is mine
Iste
That person [Euryalus]
Nec ausus
Neither dared
Nec potuit
Nor could have done
Nihil
Anything [in the circumstances - double negative]
Testor
I call to witness
Conscia sidera
And the witnessing stars
Dilexit
He loved
Tantum
Merely
Nimium
Too much
Infelicem…amicum
His unfortunate friend
Talia dicta dabat
He was giving such words
Ensis adactus
The sword having been driven home
Transadigit
Pierced through
Costas
His ribs
Viribus
With full force
Rumpit
Broke through
Candida pectora
His gleaming white chest
Volvitur Euryalus leto
Euryalus rolled in death
NB: rolled used to describe the Sulmo’s death in line 412
Cruor
The blood
Pulchrosque per artus it
Went over his beautiful limbs
Cervix conlapsa
And the neck having collapsed
Recumbit
Sank back (onto)
In(que) umeros
Onto his shoulders
Veluti
Just like
Purpureus…cum flos
When a radiant flower
Succisus
Having been cut
Aratro
By a plough
Languescit moriens
Wilts dying
Lasso(ve)…collo
With a weary neck
Papavera
Poppies
Demisere caput
Let down their head
Cum forte gravantur
When by chance they are weighed down
Pluvia
By rain
At
But
Ruit
Rushed
In medios
Into the midst
Solumque per omnis Volcentem petit
And attacks/ed Volcens alone out of everybody
In solo Volcente moratur
Concentrating only on Volcens
Glomerati hostes
The enemy having gathered in bands
Quem circum
Around him
Comminus
At close quarters
Proturbant
Drove him
Hinc…atque hinc
From here to there/out of the way
Instat
He pressed on
Non setius
Nonetheless
Rotat ensem fulmineum
He whirled his flashing sword
Donec
Until
Condidit
He hid it
In ore…adverso
In the opposing face
Rutuli clamatis
Of the shouting Rutulian [Volcens]
Moriens animam abstulit hosti
Dying he took away the soul of his enemy
Confossus
Having been fatally wounded
Sese proiecit
He flung himself
Super exanimum…amicum
On top of his lifeless friend
Quievit
He found rest
Demum
At last
Placida(que)…morte
In peaceful death
Mihi…poenas persolves amborum
You pay the penalty of both to me
