The Aeneid Book VI Flashcards
carina
bottom of ship, hull
folium
leaf
antrum
cave, cavern
cor
heart, mind, soul
frigus
cold, cold weather, winter
innuptus
unmarried
immitto
send in/to, insert, throw in
coluber
snake, serpent
effundo
pour out/away
cado
fall, sink, drop, die
fallo
deceive, slip by
remus
oar
vates
prophet, seer, soothsayer
amnis
river
vestigium
step, track, trace
mentum
chin
longaevus
of old age, aged
sedes
seat, home
tergum
back, rear
sordidus
dirty, unclean, foul
immanis
huge
turbidus
wild, stormy, disordered
humus
ground, soil, earth
arceo
keep away, confine, hinder
tacitus
not speaking, silent
ministro
attend to, serve, supply
harena
sand, desert
numen
divine will, divinity
tendo
stretch, spread, extend
ramus
branch, bough
ruo
destroy, ruin, overthrow
licet
it is permitted
fames
hunger, famine
avis
bird
pondus
weight, burden, impediment
genitor
father, creator, originator
ultro
besides, beyond
stagnum
standing water, pool
rogus
funeral pyre
limen
threshold, entrance
propinquo
bring near, draw near
veho
bear, carry
solium
throne, seat
verro
sweep, sweep clean
linquo
leave, quit, forsake
erro
wander, make a mistake
nefas
sin
vis
strength, force, power
lateo
lie hidden, lurk
nemus
wood, forest
puppis
stern of ship, back
velum
sail, sheet, awning
horreo
dread, shudder at
ratis
raft, ship, boat
viridis
green
demum
finally, at last
proles
offspring, descendant
for, fari
speak
sepelio
bury, submerge, overcome
fluvius
stream, river
litus
shore, seashore
sors
lot, fate
enim
indeed, in fact
ossum
bone
insidia
ambush, plot, trap
fundo
pour, cast, scatter
labor (v)
slide, glide, drop
deduco
lead, draw, pull
glomero
collect, assemble
palus
swamp, marsh
vinclum
chain, bond
squalor
filth
pando
spread out
ripa
bank
___ is the city to be founded by Ascanius
Alba Longa
___ is the goddess who sends doves to help Aeneas find the golden bough.
Venus
___ is where sinners were eternally punished.
Tartarus
___ is the person with whom Aeneas is supposed to speak in the underworld.
Anchises
___ is the river from which souls drank in order to be reborn.
Lethe
___ was punished eternally by having food and water always just out of reach.
Tantalus
___ was the future son of Aeneas
Silvius
___ is the god of war, father of Romulus and Remus
Mars
___ is the place where Aeneas is at the beginning of book VI
Cumae
___ entertained those in the underworld with his music.
Orpheus
___ had to roll a rock up a hill for all eternity.
Sisyphus
___ is the actual name of the Sibyl
Deiphobe
___ was in a spinning wheel for all eternity
Ixion
___ was the founder of Rome
Romulus
___ is the river which must be crossed in the underworld.
Styx
___ is the heaven part of the underworld.
Elysium
___ is the region in Italy where Aeneas will found his city.
Latium
___ is the lake that smells so awful that no birds are there.
Avernus
___ is the city to be founded by Aeneas.
Lavinium
___ was the grandfather of Romulus and Remus.
Numitor
___ was the fury who guarded the entrance to Tartarus.
Tisiphone
___ was the master craftsman who engraved the temple doors mentioned in the beginning of book VI.
Daedalus
___ is the future wife of Aeneas.
Lavinia
___ is the god of prophecy, helpful to the Trojans.
Apollo
___ is the Juno inferno, wife of Pluto, and queen of the underworld.
Proserpina
___ is another name for the underworld itself.
Dis
___ is the King who established Roman religious and moral customs.
Numa
___ was the first consul of Rome who had his own sons killed.
Brutus