Vergil's Aeneid Book IV Lines 693-705

Question 1

Tum Iuno omnipotens longum miserata dolorem difficilesque obitus Irim demisit Olympō quae lucantem animam nexosque resolveret artūs.

Answer 1

Then all-powerful Juno having pitied her long pain and uneasy death sent down Iris from Olympus who might loosen her struggling spirit and fastened limbs.

Question 2

Nam quia nec fatō meritā nec morte peribat,

Answer 2

For because she perished neither by fate nor a deserved death,

Question 3

sed misera ante diem subitoque accensa furore,

Answer 3

but miserable before the day and inflamed suddenly by anger,

Question 4

nondum illī flavum Proserpina vertice crinem abstulerat Stygioque caput damnaverat Orcō.

Answer 4

not yet had Prosperina taken away from that woman the yellow hair from the top and condemned her head to the Styx and Hades.

Question 5

Ergo Iris croceīs per caelum roscida pennīs mille trahens variōs adversō sole colores devolat et suprā caput astitit.

Answer 5

Therefore dewy Iris through the sky on yellow wings dragging a thousand various colors from the facing sun flies down and stood above her head.

Question 6

“Hunc ego Ditī sacrum iussa ferō teque istō corpore solvō”:

Answer 6

“I having been ordered carry this sacred (hair) to Pluto and release you from this body”:

Question 7

Sic ait et dextrā crinem secat,

Answer 7

Thus, she spoke and cut the hair with her right hand,

Question 8

omnis et unā dilapsus calor atque in ventōs vita recessit.

Answer 8

and together all heat slipped away and life departed into the air.