Virgil Pg 2 (305-316)

Question 1

Pg 2 Line 1
huc omnis turba ad ripas effusa ruebat, matres atque viri defunctaque corpora vita magnanimum heroum, pueri innuptaeque puellae, impositique rogis iuvenes ante ora parentum:

Answer 1

The whole crowd spread far and wide was rushing hither to the banks, mothers and husbands, bodies of high-souled heroes who have completed their lifespan, boys and unmarried girls and young men placed on funeral pyres before the faces of their parents:

Question 2

Pg 2 Line 2
quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo lapsa cadunt folia,
aut ad terram gurgite ab alto quam multae glomerantur aves, ubi frigidus annus trans pontum fugat et terris immittit apricis.

Answer 2

as many as the leaves in the woods which having slipped down, fall in the first frost of autumn, or as many as the birds which gather together from the deep sea to the land, when the cold season makes them flea across the sea and sends [them] into sunny lands.

Question 3

Pg 2 Line 3
stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.

Answer 3

They were standing [there], begging to be the first to go across on the passage and were stretching out their hands in their desire for the further shore.

Question 4

Pg 2 Line 4
navita sed tristis nunc hos nunc accipit illos, ast alios longe summotos arcet harena.

Answer 4

But the gloomy sailor took on board now these, now those, but others, driven away, he kept far from the sand.