The Aeneid, Virgil lines 712-723

Question 1

vos, famuli, quae dicam animis advertite vestris.

Answer 1

You, servants, turn your attention to what I am about to say.

Question 2

est urbe egressis tumulus templumque vetustum

Answer 2

There is, when you have gone out from the city, a tomb and an ancient temple

Question 3

desertae Cereris, iuxtaque antiqua cupressus

Answer 3

of deserted Ceres, and close by an ancient cypress tree

Question 4

religione patrum multos servata per annos

Answer 4

protected for many years by the religious observance of our ancestors

Question 5

hanc ex diverso sedem veniemus in unam.

Answer 5

From different (directions) we shall come to this single resting-place.

Question 6

tu, genitor, cape sacra manu patriosque penates,

Answer 6

You, father, take the sacred emblems in your hand and the penates of your fathers,

Question 7

me bello e tanto digressum et caede recenti

Answer 7

it is sinful for me to touch them, having come from such a mighty war and fresh slaughter,

Question 8

attrectare nefas, donec me flumine vivo abluero.’

Answer 8

until I have cleansed myself in a running river.’

Question 9

haec fatus latos umeros subiectaque colla

Answer 9

Having said this, I covered myself, on top of my broad shoulders

Question 10

veste super fulvique insternor pelle leonis,

Answer 10

and bowed neck, with the tawny hide of a lion as clothing,

Question 11

succedoque oneri; dextrae se parvus lulus

Answer 11

and I submitted to the burden; little Iulus entwined himself in my