Virgil Aeneid Difficult Phrases

Question 1

Ipsum autem sumptis priamum iuvenalibus armis ut vidit , line 518

Answer 1

However when she saw Priam himself after he had taken up his youthful armour,

Question 2

Huc tandem concede, 523

Answer 2

Withdraw to here I beg

Question 3

Ad sese et sacra longaevum in sede locavit , line 525

Answer 3

She drew the aged man to herself and put him on a sacred seat

Question 4

Elapsus pyrrhi de caede polites , line 526

Answer 4

Escaping from slaughter of Pyrrhus Polites

Question 5

Illum ardens infesto vulnere pyrrhus insequitur, line529

Answer 5

Pyrrhus pursued him, burning, with a wound being threatened

Question 6

Iam iamque manu tenet et premit hasta, line 530

Answer 6

At any time now he held him in his hand and he pressed him with his spear

Question 7

Ut tandem ante oculos evasit et ora parentum, line 531

Answer 7

When finally he had evaded before the eyes and the faces of his parents

Question 8

Non tamen abstinuit nec voci iraeque pepercit, line 534

Answer 8

Nevertheless he did not hold back nor did he spare his voice and anger

Question 9

‘At tibi pro scelere’ exclamat, ‘pro talibus ausis di, si qua est caelo pietas quae talia curet’, line 535

Answer 9

“But to you in return for your crime“ he shouted “in return for such outrageous deeds, may the gods, if there is any justice in heaven which cares for such things,

Question 10

‘Persolvant grates dignas et praemia reddant debita, qui nati coram me cernere letum fecisti et patrios foedasti funere vultus.’ Line 537

Answer 10

Pay in full fitting thanks, and give you due rewards, you who made me see the death of my son before my eyes, and befouled the face of a father with death’

Question 11

Talis in hostels fuit priamo; line 541

Answer 11

Was not like that in dealing with his enemy Priam

Question 12

Sed iura fidemque supplicis erubuit corpusque exsangue sepulcro reddidit hectoreum , line 542

Answer 12

But he respected the rights and the trust of the suppliant, and gave back the bloodless body of Hector

Question 13

Sic fatus senior telumque imbelle sine ictu , line 544

Answer 13

The old man spoke thus, and he threw his feeble spear without strength,

Question 14

Rauco quod protinus aere repulsum, et summo clipei nequiquam umbone pependit, line 545

Answer 14

Which was at once blocked by the noisy bronze, and it hung in vain in the surface of the boss of the shield

Question 15

‘Referes ergo haec et nuntius ibis pelidae genitori, line 547

Answer 15

Therefore you will report these things and you will go as a messenger to my father son of Peleus

Question 16

Illi mea tristia facta degeneremque Neoptolemus narrare memento, line 548

Answer 16

Remember to tell the story of my grim deeds and degenerate Neoptolemus

Question 17

Altaria ad ipsa trementem traxit et in multo lapsantem sanguine nati, line550

Answer 17

He dragged him to the very altar, trembling and slipping in the abundant blood of his son,

Question 18

Implicuitque comam laeva, dextraque coruscum extulit ac lateri capulo tenus abdidit, line552

Answer 18

And he entwined his hair in his left hand, and with his right hand he drew out his glittering sword and buried it in his side right up to the hilt

Question 19

Hic exitus illum sorte tulit troiam incensam et prolapsa videntem pergama

Answer 19

This death bore him off by fate, seeing Troy set on fire Pergamum collapsed

Question 20

Tot quondam populis terrisque superbum regnatorem asiae. Line 556

Answer 20

Once the proud ruler of so many peoples and lands of Asia

Question 21

Iacet ingens litore truncus avulsumque umeris caput et sine nomine corpus, line 557

Answer 21

The huge body lay on the shore, both the head torn from the shoulders and the body without a name