Vergil's Aeneid Book II Lines 588-620

Question 1

Talia iactabam et furiatā mente ferebar,

Answer 1

I was uttering such things and I was being borne with an infuriated mind,

Question 2

cum mihi se, non ante oculīs tam clara, videndam obtulit et purā per noctem in luce refulsit alma parens,

Answer 2

when my kind mother brought herself to me to be seen, previously not so clear to my eyes and shone through the night in pure light,

Question 3

confessa deam qualisque viderī caelicolīs et quanta solet,

Answer 3

having revealed herself as a goddess and of what sort and how great she is accustomed to be seen to the deities,

Question 4

dextrāque prehensum continuit roseoque haec insuper addidit ore:

Answer 4

and she restrained me having been grasped by the right hand and added these things from her rosy mouth besides:

Question 5

“Nate, quis indomitas tantus dolor excitat irās?

Answer 5

Son, what so great pain stirs up your uncontrolled anger?

Question 6

Quid furis?

Answer 6

Why do you rage?

Question 7

Aut quonam nostrī tibi cura recessit?

Answer 7

Or where for you has your care for us withdrawn?

Question 8

Non prius aspicies ubi fessum aetate parentem liqueris Anchisen, superet coniunxne Creusa Ascaniusque puer?

Answer 8

Will you not first see where you have left behind father Anchises, weary with age, whether Creusa, your wife, and your boy Ascanius survives?

Question 9

Quos omnes undique Graiae circum errant acies et, nī mea cura resistat,

Answer 9

Whom all the Greek troops wander around from all sides and, unless my care would stop,

Question 10

iam flammae tulerint inimicus et hauserit ensis.

Answer 10

already the flames would have carried and the hostile sword would have drained.

Question 11

Non tibi Tyndaridis facies invisa Lacaenae culpatusve Paris,

Answer 11

The hated face of the Spartan daughter of Tyndarus or Paris is not to be considered by you,

Question 12

divum inclementia, divum has evertit opes sternitque ā culmine Troiam.

Answer 12

the mercilessness of the gods overturns this wealth and lays low Troy from its height.

Question 13

Aspice (namque omnem, quae nunc obducta tuentī mortales hebetat visūs tibi et umida circum caligat, nubem eripiam;

Answer 13

Look (for I will snatch away every cloud, which now having been drawn over to you watching dulls mortal sight and damp darkens around;

Question 14

tu ne qua parentis iussa timē neu praeceptīs parere recusā):

Answer 14

you, don’t fear any orders of your parent nor refuse to obey instructions):

Question 15

hic, ubi disiectās moles avulsaque saxīs saxa vides, mixtōque undantem pulvere fumum,

Answer 15

here, where you see the scattered structures and stones torn from stones; and smoke waving with mixed dust,

Question 16

Neptunus murōs magnōque emota tridentī fundamenta quatit totamque ā sedibus urbem eruit.

Answer 16

Neptune shakes with his great trident the walls and moved away foundations and tears up the entire city from its seats.

Question 17

Hīc Iuno Scaeas saevissima portās prima tenet sociumque furens ā navibus agmen ferrō accinta vocat.

Answer 17

Here Juno first most fierce holds the Scaean gates and raging as an ally she calls the army from the ships having been equipped with a sword.

Question 18

Iam summās arces Tritonia, respice, Pallas insedit nimbō effulgens et Gorgone saevā.

Answer 18

Look, now Tritonian Pallas has occupied the highest citadels gleaming in a cloud and with fierce Gorgon.

Question 19

Ipse pater Danaīs animos viresque secundas sufficit, ipse deōs in Dardana suscitat arma.

Answer 19

The father himself supplies the spirits and favourable strength to the Greeks, he himself stirs up the gods against Dardanian arms.

Question 20

Eripe, nate, fugam finemque impone laborī;

Answer 20

Rescue yourself, son, set to flight and an end to the labor;

Question 21

nusquam aberō et tutum patriō te limine sistam.”

Answer 21

I will never be distant and I will stand you safe at the threshold of the fatherland.”