Lines 486-505

Question 1

at domus interior gemitu miseroque tumultu

Answer 1

But the inside of the palace is embroiled with moaning and a wretched uproar,

Question 2

miscetur, penitusque cavae plangoribus aedes

Answer 2

and deep within the hollow dwellings shriek with the mourning of women

Question 3

femineis ululant; ferit aurea sidera clamor.

Answer 3

the noise strikes the golden stars.

Question 4

tum pavidae tectis matres ingentibus errant

Answer 4

Then frightened mothers wander through the huge rooms

Question 5

amplexaeque tenent postes atque oscula figunt.

Answer 5

and embracing doorposts they cling to them and plant kisses [upon them].

Question 6

instat vi patria Pyrrhus; nec claustra nec ipsi

Answer 6

Pyrrhus presses on with his father’s ferocity; neither the bolts nor the guards themselves

Question 7

custodes sufferre valent; labat ariete crebro

Answer 7

manage to hold him back; with the repeated battering of the ram

Question 8

ianua, et emoti procumbunt cardine postes.

Answer 8

the door totters and the doors drop down removed from their sockets.

Question 9

fit via vi; rumpunt aditus primosque trucidant

Answer 9

A way is made by force; the Greeks, having been let in, break through the entrances and slaughter the front ranks (first men)

Question 10

immissi Danai et late loca milite complent.

Answer 10

and far and wide they fill the rooms with soldiers.

Question 11

non sic, aggeribus ruptis cum spumeus amnis

Answer 11

Not so when a foaming river, having burst its banks

Question 12

exiit oppositasque evicit gurgite moles,

Answer 12

has come forth, and overcome its retaining banks with its flood,

Question 13

fertur in arva furens cumulo camposque per omnis

Answer 13

it is carried onto the fields in a cresting wave and through all the fields

Question 14

cum stabulis armenta trahit. vidi ipse furentem

Answer 14

drags along the herds with their stables. I myself saw Neoptolemus raging (mad)

Question 15

caede Neoptolemum geminosque in limine Atridas,

Answer 15

with slaughter, and the twin sons of Atreus in the threshold,

Question 17

vidi Hecubam centumque nurus Priamumque per aras

Answer 17

I saw Hecuba and her hundred daughters and Priam

Question 18

sanguine foedantem quos ipse sacraverat ignes.

Answer 18

defiling the fires which he himself had sanctified with his own blood [spread] across the altars.

Question 19

quinquaginta illi thalami, spes ampla nepotum,

Answer 19

Those fifty bedrooms, such great hope of grandchildren,

Question 20

barbarico postes auro spoliisque superbi

Answer 20

doorposts resplendent with their foreign gold and spoils

Question 21

procubuere; tenent Danai qua deficit ignis.

Answer 21

fell to the ground, the Greeks hold them where the fire is not.