Section 5

Question 1

si te nulla movet tantae pietatis imago,

Answer 1

If the image of such great piety does not move you,

Question 2

at ramum hunc’ (aperit ramum qui veste latebat) ‘agnoscas.’

Answer 2

at least you may recognise this branch.’ (She drew the branch which she was hiding in her cloak.)

Question 3

tumida ex ira tum corda residunt;

Answer 3

Then his heart, swollen from anger, subsided;

Question 4

nec plura his. ille admirans venerabile donum

Answer 4

No more (was said about) these things. He, admiring the revered gift

Question 5

fatalis virgae longo post tempore visum

Answer 5

of the fateful bough, seen after a long time,

Question 6

caeruleam advertit puppim ripaque propinquat.

Answer 6

he turned his dark blue vessel and nears the shore.

Question 7

inde alias animas, quae per iuga longa sedebant, deturbat laxatque foros;

Answer 7

Then he cast off the other souls, who were sitting on the long benches, and he cleared the gangways;

Question 8

simul accipit alveo ingentem Aenean. gemuit sub pondere cumba

Answer 8

as soon as he received the great Aeneas in his boat. The skiff groaned under his weight

Question 9

sutilis et multam accepit rimosa paludem.

Answer 9

and (as it was) sewn together and leaky, it let in a lot of marsh water.

Question 10

tandem trans fluvium incolumis vatemque virumque informi limo glaucaque exponit in ulua.

Answer 10

At last he landed the prophetess and the man unharmed across the river on the formless mud and grey sedge.