Lines 59-71

Question 1

haud segnes alii cratis et molle feretrum arbuteis texunt virgis et vimine querno exstructosque toros obtentu frondis inumbrant.

Answer 1

Not slowly do others weave a soft bier of wickerwork with osiers of oak twigs and shoots of strawberry tree, covering the built up bier using a canopy of leaves

Question 2

hic iuvenem agresti sublimem stramine ponunt: qualem virgineo demessum pollice florem

Answer 2

Here they place this lofty young man on the rustic bed, like a flower plucked by the thumb of a young girl,

Question 3

seu mollis violae seu languentis hyacinthi, cui neque fulgor adhuc nec dum sua forma recessit,

Answer 3

either of a soft violet or the wilting hyacinth, from which its splendour nor own special shape has faded,

Question 4

Haec ubi deflevit, tolli miserabile corpus imperat, et toto lectos ex agmine

Answer 4

When he wept over these things, he ordered for the wretched body to be raised and selected out of the whole column

Question 5

non iam mater alit tellus virisque ministrat.

Answer 5

nor now mother earth feed it and supply it strength.

Question 6

mittit mille viros qui supremum comitentur honorem intersintque patris lacrimis,

Answer 6

he sent 1000 men to accompany the last honour and to share the tears of his father,

Question 7

solacia luctus exigua ingentis, misero sed debita patri.

Answer 7

a slight solace for a huge grief, but owed to a wretched father.