The Aeneid, Virgil lines 542-553

Question 1

supplicis erubuit corpusque exsangue sepulcro

Answer 1

but he respected the laws and trust of a suppliant

Question 2

reddidit Hectoreum meque in mea regna remisit.’

Answer 2

and returned Hector’s bloodless body to the tomb and sent me back into my kingdom.’

Question 3

sic fatus senior telumque imbelle sine ictu

Answer 3

So spoke the elderly man and he hurled the unwarlike weapon without a blow,

Question 4

coniecit, rauco quod protinus aere repulsum,

Answer 4

which was repulsed straightaway by the echoing bronze,

Question 5

et summo clipei nequiquam umbone pependit.

Answer 5

and it hung idly from the top of the boss of the shield.

Question 6

cui Pyrrhus: ‘referes ergo haec et nuntius ibis

Answer 6

Pyrrhus (replied) to him: ‘So you will take this back and you will go as a messenger to my father,

Question 7

Pelidae genitori. illi mea tristia facta

Answer 7

the son of Peleus. Remember to tell him

Question 8

degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento.

Answer 8

of my sorry deeds and the worthless Neoptolemus.

Question 9

nunc morere.’ hoc dicens altaria ad ipsa trementem

Answer 9

Now die.’ As he said this he dragged him to the altar itself, trembling

Question 10

traxit et in multo lapsantem sanguine nati,

Answer 10

and sliding in lots of his son’s blood,

Question 11

implicuitque comam laeva, dextraque coruscum

Answer 11

and he entwined his hair with his left hand,

Question 12

extulit ac lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem.

Answer 12

and with his right hand raised his glimmering sword and drove it into his side as far as the hilt.