Virgil Pg 4a (399-407)

Question 1

Pg 4a Line 1
‘nullae hic insidiae tales (absiste moveri),
nec vim tela ferunt.

Answer 1

‘[There is] no such treachery here (stop being alarmed), nor do the weapons bring violence.

Question 2

Pg 4a Line 2
licet ingens ianitor antro aeternum latrans exsangues terreat umbras, casta licet patrui servet Proserpina limen.

Answer 2

The huge doorkeeper, barking eternally in the cave, is allowed to terrify the bloodless shades, [and] undefiled Proserpina is allowed to protect the threshold of her uncle.

Question 3

Pg 4a Line 3
Troius Aeneas, pietate insignis et armis,
ad genitorem imas Erebi descendit ad umbras.

Answer 3

The Trojan Aeneas, outstanding in his dutifulness and [feats of] arms, is coming down to the lowest shades of Erebus to [see] his father.

Question 4

Pg 4a Line 4
si te nulla movet tantae pietatis imago, at ramum hunc’ (aperit ramum qui veste latebat) ‘agnoscas.’

Answer 4

If no image of such great dutifulness moves you, you should at least recognise this bough’ (she revealed the bough which was lying hidden in her clothes)