The Aeneid, Virgil lines 530-541

Question 1

insequitur, iam iamque manu tenet et premit hasta,

Answer 1

Again and again he nearly seizes him with his hand and he presses with his spear,

Question 2

ut tandem ante oculos evasit et ora parentum,

Answer 2

when at last he emerged before the eyes and the faces of his parents,

Question 3

concidit ac multo vitam cum sanguine fudit.

Answer 3

he fell and poured out his life with much blood.

Question 4

hic Priamus, quamquam in media iam morte tenetur,

Answer 4

Here Priam, although he was now being held in the middle of death,

Question 5

non tamen abstinuit nec voci iraeque pepercit:

Answer 5

nevertheless he did not hold back nor spare his voice and anger:

Question 6

‘at tibi pro scelere,’ exclamat, ‘pro talibus ausis

Answer 6

He shouted: ‘For wickedness, for such brazen acts,

Question 7

di, si qua est caelo pietas quae talia curet,

Answer 7

if there is any holiness in heaven which takes interest in such matters,

Question 8

persolvant grates dignas et praemia reddant

Answer 8

may the gods pay worthy thanks and give due rewards,

Question 9

debita, qui nati coram me cernere letum

Answer 9

you who have made me watch the death of my son in person

Question 10

fecisti et patrios foedasti funere vultus.

Answer 10

and befouled a father’s features with death.

Question 11

at non ille, satum quo te mentiris, Achilles

Answer 11

But he, from whom you falsely state that you were born, Achilles

Question 12

talis in hoste fuit Priamo; sed iura fidemque

Answer 12

was not such a man in the case of his enemy Priam; but he respected