The Aeneid, Virgil lines 735-773

Question 1

hic mihi nescio quod trepido male numen amicum

Answer 1

Here, an unfriendly power – I know not what – robbed my perplexed

Question 2

confusam eripuit mentem. namque avia cursu

Answer 2

mind from me as I panicked. For while I was following pathless tracks with haste

Question 3

dum sequor et nota excedo regione viarum,

Answer 3

and departing from the known direction of the roads

Question 4

heu misero coniunx fatone erepta Creusa

Answer 4

Alas! – my wife Creusa, snatched away by a wretched destiny,

Question 5

substitit, erravitne via seu lassa resedit,

Answer 5

stood still, or did she wander from the path or sit down tired?

Question 6

incertum; nec post oculis est reddita nostris.

Answer 6

I am not sure; nor later was she restored to our eyes.

Question 7

ausus quin etiam voces iactare per umbram

Answer 7

Why, even daring to cast my cries through the night

Question 8

implevi clamore vias, maestusque Creusam

Answer 8

I filled the streets with shouting, and gloomily repeating

Question 9

nequiquam ingeminans iterumque iterumque vocavi.

Answer 9

“Creusa” in vain, I called again and again.

Question 10

quaerenti et tectis urbis sine fine ruenti

Answer 10

As I searched and as I rushed endlessly among the houses of the city

Question 11

infelix simulacrum atque ipsius umbra Creusae

Answer 11

the sad phantom and ghost of Creusa herself

Question 12

visa mihi ante oculos et nota maior imago,

Answer 12

appeared before my eyes, an even larger likeness than the one I knew,