Vergil's Aeneid Book I Lines 102-209

Question 1

Tālia jactantī strīdens Aquilōne procella vēlum adversa ferit, flūctūsque ad sīdera tollit.

Answer 1

While uttering such things a gale roaring from the north in front strikes the sail, and lifts the waves to the stars.

Question 2

Franguntur rēmī, tum prōra āvertit et undīs dat latus, īnsequitur cumulō praeruptus aquae mōns.

Answer 2

The oars are broken, then the bow turns away and gives the side to the waves, a steep mountain of water follows in a mass.

Question 3

Hī summō in flūctū pendent; hīs unda dehīscēns terram inter flūctūs aperit, furit aestus harēnīs.

Answer 3

These men hang in the highest wave; for these men a gaping wave opens the earth between the waves, the tide rages on the sands.

Question 4

Trīs Notus abreptās in saxa latentia torquet (saxa vocant Italī mediīs quae in flūctibus Ārās, dorsum immāne marī summō),

Answer 4

The South Wind twists 3 ships having been snatched away onto hidden rocks (the Italians call the rocks Altars which are in the middle of the waves, a huge reef on the top of the sea),

Question 5

trīs Eurus ab altō in brevia et syrtīs urget, miserāble vīsū, inlīditque vadīs atque aggere cingit harēnae.

Answer 5

the east wind forces 3 ships from the deep onto the shallows and sandbars, a miserable sight, and dashes them against the shoals and encircles them with a mound of sand.

Question 6

Ūnam, quae Lyciōs fīdumque vehēbat Orontēn, ipsius ante oculōs ingēns ā vertice pontus in puppim ferit:

Answer 6

One, which was carrying the Lycians and the faithful Orontes, before his very eyes the huge sea from the top strikes onto the stern:

Question 7

excutitur prōnusque magister volvitur in caput; ast illam ter flūctus ibīdem torquet agēns circum et rapidus vorat aequore vertex.

Answer 7

the helmsman is cast out headlong and is turned onto his head; yet three times the driving sea turns that ship around in the same place and the rapid top swallows it up in the sea.

Question 8

Appārent rārī nantēs in gurgite vastō, arma virum tabulaeque et Trōia gaza per undās.

Answer 8

Scattered men appear swimming in a vast whirlpool, the arms of men and planks and Trojan riches through the waves.

Question 9

Jam validam Īlioneī nāvem, jam fortis Achātae, et quā vectus Abās, et quā grandaevus Alētēs, vīcit hiems;

Answer 9

Now the strong ship of Ilioneus, now of the brave Achates, and the ship on which Abas sailed, and on which aged Aletes, the storm conquers;

Question 10

laxīs laterum compāgibus omnēs accipiunt inimīcum imbrem rīmīsque fatīscunt.

Answer 10

all receive the unfriendly water in the loose seams of the sides and split in the cracks.

Question 11

Intereā magnō miscērī murmure pontum ēmissamque hiemem sēnsit Neptūnus et īmīs stāgna refūsa vadīs, graviter commōtus;

Answer 11

Meanwhile Neptune felt the sea was being stirred with a great murmur and the storm having been sent out and the still waters having been poured back from the lowest depths, he was greatly disturbed;

Question 12

et altō prōspiciēns summā placidum caput extulit undā.

Answer 12

and looking out on the sea he raised his quiet head on the top of a wave.

Question 13

Disjectam Aenēae tōtō videt aequore classem, flūctibus oppressōs Trōas caelīque ruīnā.

Answer 13

He sees on the entire sea the scattered fleet of Aeneas, and the Trojans overwhelmed by the waves and by the ruin of heaven.

Question 14

Nec latuēre dolī frātrem Jūnōnis et īrae.

Answer 14

Nor did the deceits and anger of Juno escape the notice of her brother.

Question 15

Eurum ad sē Zephyrumque vocat, dehinc tālia fātur:

Answer 15

He calls the east wind and west wind to himself, then says such words:

Question 16

“Tantane vōs generis tenuit fīdūcia vestrī?

Answer 16

Did you have such trust of your birth?

Question 17

Jam caelum terramque meō sine nūmine, ventī, miscēre et tantās audētis tollere mōlēs?

Answer 17

Already without my divine will, winds, did you dare to stir up the earth and sky and to lift such masses?

Question 18

Quōs ego —! sed mōtōs praestat compōnere flūctūs.

Answer 18

Which I —! but it is better to calm the moved waves.

Question 19

Post mihi nōn similī poenā commissa luētis.

Answer 19

After you will atone to me for things having been committed by no similar punishment.

Question 20

Mātūrāte fugam rēgīque haec dīcite vestrō: nōn illī imperium pelagī saevumque tridentem, sed mihi sorte datum.

Answer 20

Hasten flight and tell these things to your king: the command of the sea and the cruel trident was not given to that man, but to me by lot.

Question 21

Tenet ille immānia saxa, vestrās, Eure, domōs; illā sē jactet in aulā Aeolus et clausō ventōrum carcere rēgnet.”

Answer 21

That man holds the huge rocks, your homes, East wind; let Aeolus toss himself in that court and let him rule in the closed prison of the winds.”

Question 22

Sīc ait et dictō citius tumida aequore plācat collēctāsque fugat nūbēs sōlemque redūcit.

Answer 22

Thus he said and more quickly than the word he calms the swollen seas and puts to flight the collected clouds and leads back the sun.

Question 23

Cymothoē simul et Tritōn adnixus acūtō dētrūdunt nāvīs scopulō; levat ipse tridentī et vastās aperit syrtīs et temperat aequor atque rotīs summās levibus perlābitur undās.

Answer 23

Together Cymothoe and Triton leaning against the ships push them off from the sharp rock; he himself lifts with his trident and opens the vast sand bars and tempers the sea and with light wheels glides on the top of the waves.

Question 24

Ac velutī magnō in populō cum saepe coörta est sēditiō saevitque animīs ignōbile vulgus; jamque facēs et saxa volant, furor arma ministrat;

Answer 24

And also as in a great people when often a riot has arisen and an inglorious people rages in their spirit; and already the torches and rocks fly, rage administers arms;

Question 25

tum, pietāte gravem ac meritīs sī forte virum quem cōnspexēre, silent arrēctīsque auribus astant; ille regit dictīs animōs et pectora mulcet:

Answer 25

then, if by chance any man, serious in devotion and merits, they saw, they are silent and stand with attentive ears; that man rules their spirits and softens their hearts with words:

Question 26

sīc cūnctus pelagī cecidit fragor, aequora postquam prōspiciēns genitor caelōque invectus apertō flectit equōs currūque volāns dat lōra secundō.

Answer 26

thus the entire uproar of the sea subsided, afterwards the father looking out on the sea having been carried in a chariot in the open favourable sky flying he guides the horses and gives reins.

Question 27

Dēfessī Aeneadae quae proxima lītora cursū contendunt petere, et Libyae vertuntur ad ōrās.

Answer 27

The tired men of Aeneas hasten to seek by their course which are the nearest shores, and they are turned to the Libyan shores.

Question 28

Est in sēcessū longō locus: īnsula portum efficit objectū laterum, quibus omnis ab altō frangitur inque sinūs scindit sēsē unda reductōs.

Answer 28

There is a place in a long inlet: an island forms a port by the projection of its sides, with which every wave from the deep is broken and splits itself having been led back into the bay.

Question 29

Hinc atque hinc vastae rūpēs geminīque minantur in caelum scopulī, quōrum sub vertice lātē aequora tūta silent;

Answer 29

Here and there vast cliffs and twin rocks threaten into the sky, under the top of which the entire sea is silent far and wide;

Question 30

tum silvīs scaena coruscīs dēsuper, horrentīque ātrum nemus imminent umbrā;

Answer 30

then the background from above with flashing forests, a dark grove threatens with shuddering shade;

Question 31

fronte sub adversā scopulīs pendentibus antrum, intus aquae dulcēs vīvōque sedīlia saxō, nymphārum domus.

Answer 31

under the opposite face a cave with hanging rocks within sweet waters and seats from living rock, the homes of the nymphs.

Question 32

Hīc fessās nōn vincula nāvīs ūlla tenent, uncō nōn alligat ancora morsū.

Answer 32

Here no chains hold tired ships, the anchor does not bind with a fluked bit.

Question 33

Hūc septem Aenēās collēctīs nāvibus omnī ex numerō subit;

Answer 33

Here Aeneas enters with seven ships collected from all the number;

Question 34

ac magnō tellūris amōre ēgressī optātā potiuntur Trōes harēnā et sale tābentīs artūs in lītore pōnunt.

Answer 34

and with a great love of the land having departed they gain possession of the desired beach and they place their limbs dripping with salt on the shore.

Question 35

Ac prīmum silicī scintillam excūdit Achātēs suscēpitque ignem foliīs atque ārida circum nūtrīmenta dedit rapuitque in fōmite flammam.

Answer 35

And soon Achates strikes out a spark from the flint and catches a fire with leaves and gave dry nourishment around it and seized the flame in the tinder.

Question 36

Tum Cererem corruptam undīs Cereāliaque arma expediunt fessī rērum, frūgēsque receptās et torrēre parant flammīs et frangere saxō.

Answer 36

Then tired of things they bring out the damaged grain by the waves and the instruments of Ceres, and the recovered grain they prepare both to roast on the flames and to crush on a rock.

Question 37

Aenēās scopulum intereā cōnscendit, et omnem prōspectum lātē pelagō petit, Anthea sī quem jactātum ventō videat Phrygiāsque birēmīs aut Capyn aut celsīs in puppibus arma Caīcī.

Answer 37

Meanwhile Aeneas climbs a rock, and seeks widely all the view on the sea, if he might see anything of Antheus having been tossed by the wind and the Phrygian biremes or Capys or the arms of Caicus on the high sterns.

Question 38

Nāvem in cōnspectū nūllam, trīs lītore cervōs prōspicit errantīs; hōs tōta armenta sequuntur ā tergō et longum per vallīs pascitur agmen.

Answer 38

No ship in sight, he sees three stags wandering on the shore; the whole herd follows these from behind and the long line grazes through the valleys.

Question 39

Cōnstitit hīc arcumque mānū celerīsque sagittās corripuit, fidus quae tēla gerēbat Achātēs, ductōrēsque ipsōs prīmum capita alta ferentīs cornibus arboreīs sternit,

Answer 39

He stood here and seized the bow and swift arrows in his hand, which weapons the faithful Achates was carrying, and first he lays low the leaders themselves bearing high heads with branching horns,

Question 40

tum vulgus et omnem miscet agēns tēlis nemora inter frondea turbam;

Answer 40

then the crowd and all the crowd he mixes driving with his weapons among the leafy grove;

Question 41

nec prius absistit quam septem ingentia victor corpora fundat humī et numerum cum nāvibus aequet.

Answer 41

nor does he stop before then as a victor he lays low on the ground seven huge bodies and equals the number with the ships.

Question 42

Hinc portum petit et sociōs partītur in omnīs.

Answer 42

Here he seeks the port and divides onto all comrades.

Question 43

Vīna bonus quae deinde cadīs onerārat Acestēs lītore Trīnacriō dederatque abeuntibus hērōs dīvidit, et dictīs maerentia pectora mulcet:

Answer 43

He distributes the wine which the good hero Acestes had then loaded in jars on the Sicilian shore and had given them as they were departing, and he soothes their grieving hearts with words:

Question 44

“Ō sociī (neque enim ignārī sumus ante malōrum), Ō passī graviōra, dabit deus hīs quoque fīnem.

Answer 44

“O comrades (for neither are we ignorant of troubles before), O men having suffered more severe things, god will also give an end to these things.

Question 45

Vōs et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantīs accestis scopulōs, vōs et Cyclōpia saxa expertī:

Answer 45

You have approached both the fury of Scylla and the deeply sounding cliffs, you have experienced the Cyclopean rocks:

Question 46

revocāte animōs maestumque timōrem mittite; forsan et haec ōlim meminisse juvābit.

Answer 46

recall your spirits and let go your sad fear; and perhaps at sometime it will help to remember these things.

Question 47

Per variōs cāsūs, per tot discrīmina rērum tendimus in Latium, sēdēs ubi fāta quiētās ostendunt; illīc fās rēgna resurgere Trojae.

Answer 47

Through varied misfortunes, through so many dangers of things we stretch into Latium, where the fates show restful seats; there it is right for the kingdom of Troy to rise again.

Question 48

Dūrāte, et vōsmet rēbus servāte secundīs.”

Answer 48

Endure, and save yourself for favourable things.”

Question 49

Tālia vōce refert cūrīsque ingentibus aeger spem vultū simulat, premit altum corde dolōrem.

Answer 49

He carries back such things with his voice and sick with huge cares he pretends hope by his expression, he presses the deep pain in his heart.