Vergil's Aeneid Book II Lines 268-297

Question 1

Tempus erat quō prima quies mortālibus aegrīs incipit et donō divum gratissima serpit.

Answer 1

It was the time when first rest for weary mortals begins and most pleasing creeps by the gift of the gods.

Question 2

In somnīs, ecce, ante oculōs maestissimus Hector visus adesse mihi largōsque effundere fletūs,

Answer 2

In sleep, behold, before my eyes the very sad Hector seemed to be present to me and to shed large tears,

Question 3

raptātus bigīs ut quondam, aterque cruentō pulvere perque pedēs traiectus lora tumentes.

Answer 3

as once dragged by the chariot, and dark with bloody dust and his swollen feet pierced with thongs.

Question 4

Ei mihi, qualis erat, quantum mutatus ab illō Hectore quī redit exuviās indutus Achillī

Answer 4

Alas to me, such as he was, how much changed from that Hector who returned clothed in spoils of Achilles,

Question 5

vel Danaum Phrygiōs iaculatus puppibus ignes;

Answer 5

or threw Phrygian fire on the ships of the Greeks;

Question 6

squalentem barbam et concretōs sanguine crines vulneraque illa gerens,

Answer 6

wearing a filthy beard and hair matted with blood and those wounds,

Question 7

quae circum plurima murōs accepit patriōs.

Answer 7

which very many around the walls of the fatherland he received.

Question 8

Ultrō flens ipse videbar compellare virum et maestās expromere voces:

Answer 8

Further weeping I myself seem to address the man and to bring forth sad voices:

Question 9

“O lux, Dardaniae, spes O fidissima Teucrum, quae tantae tenuēre morae?

Answer 9

“O light of the Trojans, O most loyal hope of the Trojans, which such great delays have held you?

Question 10

Quibus Hector ab orīs exspectate venīs?

Answer 10

Awaited Hector, from which shores do you come?

Question 11

Ut tē post multa tuorum funera, post variōs hominumque urbisque labores defessī aspicimus!

Answer 11

How we tired see you after many deaths of your men, after various sufferings of both men and of the city!

Question 12

Quae causa indigna serenōs foedavit vultūs?

Answer 12

What undeserved cause has defiled your serene face?

Question 13

Aut cūr haec vulnera cernō?”

Answer 13

Or why do I see these wounds?”

Question 14

Ille nihil, nec mē quaerentem vana moratur, sed graviter gemitūs imō dē pectore ducens,

Answer 14

That man (said) nothing, nor delays me seeking vain things, but heavily leading groans from the bottom of his chest,

Question 15

“Heu fuge, nate deā, tēque his,” ait, “eripe flammīs.

Answer 15

“Alas flee, goddess born,” he says, “Rescue yourself from these flames.

Question 16

Hostis habet murōs; ruit altō ā culmine Troia.

Answer 16

The enemy has the walls; Troy falls from the high top.

Question 17

Sat patriae Priamōque datum: sī Pergama dextrā defendī possent, etiam hāc defensa fuissent.

Answer 17

Enough has been given to the fatherland and Priam: if Pergama was able to be defended by the right hand, also it would have been defended by this.

Question 18

Sacra suōsque tibī commendat Troia penates;

Answer 18

Troy entrusts its sacred things and Penates to you;

Question 19

hōs cape fatorum comites, hīs moenia quaere magna, pererratō statues quae denique pontō.”

Answer 19

take these companions of the fates, seek greats wall for these, which finally you will build on the traversed sea.”

Question 20

Sīc ait et manibus vittās Vestamque potentem aeternumque adytīs effert penetralibus ignem.

Answer 20

Thus he says and brings forth with his hands the fillets and powerful Vesta and the eternal fire from the inner most shrines.