Ovid - Baucis + Philemon - lines 12 - 35

Question 1

line 12
ergo ubi caelicolae parvos tetigere penates

Answer 1

Therefore, when the heaven-dwellers arrived at the small household

Question 2

line 13
summissoque humiles intrarunt vertice postes,

Answer 2

and entered the lowly doorposts with lowered head,

Question 3

line 14
membra senex posito iussit relevare sedili,

Answer 3

the old man ordered (them) to relax their limbs on a couch which had been set

Question 4

line 15
cui superiniecit textum rude sedula Baucis.

Answer 4

out (for them), over which the busy Baucis placed a rough, woven cloth.

Question 5

line 16
inque foco tepidum cinerem dimovit et ignes

Answer 5

Then she separated the warm ash in the hearth and rouses

Question 6

line 17
suscitat hesternos foliisque et cortice sicco

Answer 6

yesterday’s fires, feeds (them) with leaves and dry bark, brings forth

Question 7

line 18
nutrit et ad flammas anima producit anili,

Answer 7

flames with the breath of an old woman, and brought down torches

Question 8

line 19
multifidasque faces ramaliaque arida tecto

Answer 8

split into many pieces and dry sticks from the roof,

Question 9

line 20
detulit et minuit parvoque admovit aeno,

Answer 9

made them smaller and applied them to a small bronze pot; and she strips a

Question 10

line 21
quodque suus coniunx riguo conlegerat horto

Answer 10

cabbage of its leaves, which her husband had gathered

Question 11

line 22
truncat holus foliis; furca levat ille bicorni

Answer 11

from the well-watered garden; with a two-pronged fork he lifts

Question 12

line 23
sordida terga suis nigro pendentia tigno

Answer 12

the sooty back of a pig which was hanging on a black beam,

Question 13

line 24
servatoque diu resecat de tergore partem

Answer 13

cuts off a thin slice from the long-preserved back

Question 14

line 25
exiguam sectamque domat ferventibus undis.

Answer 14

and having cut it up, softens it in the boiling waters.

Question 15

line 26
interea medias fallunt sermonibus horas

Answer 15

Meanwhile, they while away the intervening hours with conversations

Question 16

line 27
sentirique moram prohibent. erat alveus illic

Answer 16

and prevent the delay from being realised. There was a bathtub there

Question 17

line 28
fagineus dura clavo suspensus ab ansa;

Answer 17

made of beech, suspended from a nail by a sturdy handle;

Question 18

line 29
is tepidis impletur aquis artusque fovendos

Answer 18

this is filled with warm water and receives limbs which

Question 19

line 30
accipit. in medio torus est de mollibus ulvis

Answer 19

need warming. In the middle (of the house) is a mattress of soft sedge

Question 20

line 31
impositus lecto sponda pedibusque salignis;

Answer 20

placed on a bed with a frame and feet made of willow;

Question 21

line 32
vestibus hunc velant quas non nisi tempore festo

Answer 21

they cover this with a coverlet which they were not accustomed to strew over it

Question 22

line 33
sternere consuerant, sed et haec vilisque vetusque

Answer 22

except at holiday time, but even this coverlet was both cheap and ancient,

Question 23

line 34
vestis erat, lecto non indignanda saligno.

Answer 23

not to be deemed unworthy of the willow couch.

Question 24

line 35
accubuere dei.

Answer 24

The gods reclined (on it).