Virgil Aeneid VI : 384 - 416 Translation

Question 1

ergo iter inceptum peragunt fluvioque propinquant.

Answer 1

Therefore they continue the journey they had started and approach the river

Question 2

navita quos iam inde ut Stygia prospexit ab unda per tacitum nemus ire pedemque advertere ripae

Answer 2

Now when the boatmen, even from the Stygian waters caught sight of them going through the silent wood and turning their step to the shore

Question 3

sic prior adgreditur dictis, atque increpat ultro:

Answer 3

he addressed [them] first with these words and rebuked them on the other side:

Question 4

“quisquis es, armatus qui nostra ad flumina tendis,

Answer 4

“whoever you are, who come armed to our rivers,

Question 5

fare age, quid venias, iam istinc, et comprime gressum.

Answer 5

come, say why you have come, now, from where you are, and check your step.

Question 6

umbrarum hic locus est, somni noctisque soporae; corpora viva nefas Stygia vectare carina.

Answer 6

this is the place of shadows, of sleep and of sleep-bringing night; it is forbidden to carry living bodies in the Styggian boat

Question 7

nec vero Alciden me sum laetatus euntem accepisse lacu, nec Thesea Pirithoumque, dis quamquam geniti atque invicti viribus essent.

Answer 7

and indeed I was not happy to have received the son of Alceus, when he came on the lake, nor Theseus and Pirithous although they were sons of Gods and undefeated in strength.

Question 8

Tartareum ille manu custodem in vincla petivit, ipsius a solio regis, traxitque trementem;

Answer 8

He sought [to put] the guard of Tartarus in chains by his hand, and dragged him trembling from the throne of the King himself;

Question 9

hi dominam Ditis thalamo deducere adorti.” quae contra breviter fata est Amphrysia vates:

Answer 9

those attempted to carry off the wife of Hades from her marriage chamber.” In reply to those words, the prophetess of Apollo spoke briefly:

Question 10

“nullae hic insidiae tales; absiste moveri;

Answer 10

here [are] no traps of this kind; cease to be moved

Question 11

nec vim tela ferunt; licet ingens ianitor antro aeternum latrans exsanguis terreat umbras, casta licet patrui servet Prosperpina limen

Answer 11

nor do the weapons bring violence ; the huge gatekeeper, barking eternally in his cave, is allowed to terrify the bloodless shades, chaste persephone is allowed to keep her uncle’s threshold

Question 12

Troius Aeneas, pietate insignis et armis, ad genitorem imas Erebi descendit ad umbras.

Answer 12

Trojan Aeneas, distinguished for his piety and in his arms, is descending to the lowest shadows of Erebus to his father.

Question 13

si te nulla movet tantae pietatis imago, at ramuc hunc” (aperit ramum, qui veste latebat) “adgnoscas.” tumida ex ira tum corda residunt.

Answer 13

if no image of such great piety moves you, then” (she reveals the branch, which was hidden in her clothes) “ recognise this branch” Then his heart subsides from swelling anger.

Question 14

nec plura his. ille admirans venerabile donum fatalis virgae, longo post tempre visum , caeruleam advertit puppim, ripaeque propinquat.

Answer 14

And no more [words] than these [were spoken]. He, wondering at the Holy gift of the fateful branch, seen after a long time, turned his dark boat and approached the shore.

Question 15

inde alias animas, quae per iuga longa sedebant, deturbat, laxatque foros; simul accipit alveo ingentem Aenean. gemuit sub pondere cymba sutilis, et multam accepit rimosa paludem

Answer 15

From there he turns away the other souls, who were sitting along the long benches, and clears the gangways; straight away he accepts on the boat the huge Aeneas. The craft, stitched together, groaned under the weight and, full of cracks, took on much marsh water.

Question 16

tandem trans fluvium incolumis vatemque virumque informi limo glaucaque exponit in ulva.

Answer 16

At last, across the river, he disembarked the priestess and the man safely in the shapeless mud and the grey reeds.