Virgil Pg 3 (384-398)

Question 1

Pg 3 Line 1
ergo iter inceptum peragunt fluvioque propinquant.

Answer 1

Therefore, they completed their journey which they had begun and approached the river.

Question 2

Pg 3 Line 2
navita quos iam inde ut Stygia prospexit ab unda per tacitum nemus ire pedemque advertere ripae, sic prior adgreditur dictis atque increpat ultro:

Answer 2

When the sailor, right from where [he was], from the Stygian water, caught sight of them going through the silent grove and turning their feet towards the bank, he accosted them first with his words and also rebuked [them] thus:

Question 3

Pg 3 Line 3
‘quisquis es, armatus qui nostra ad flumina tendis, fare age, quid venias, iam istinc et comprime gressum.

Answer 3

‘Whoever you are, who, armed, make your way to our rivers, come, now say from there, why you are coming, and check your steps.

Question 4

Pg 3 Line 4
umbrarum hic locus est, somni noctisque soporae: corpora viva nefas Stygia vectare carina.

Answer 4

This is the region of the shades, of sleep and drowsy night; it is a sin to carry live bodies in the Stygian boat.

Question 5

Pg 3 Line 5
nec vero Alciden me sum laetatus euntem accepisse lacu, nec Thesea Pirithoumque, dis quamquam geniti atque invicti viribus essent.

Answer 5

Indeed, I was not happy that I had accepted either Hercules going on the lake, or Theseus and Pirithous, although they were descended from gods and unconquered in their strength.

Question 6

Pg 3 Line 6
Tartareum ille manu custodem in vincla petivit ipsius a solio regis traxitque trementem; hi dominam Ditis thalamo deducere adorti.’

Answer 6

The former sought by his hand [to put] the guard of the Underworld into chains and dragged him, trembling, from the throne of the king himself; the latter attempted to take away the mistress of Pluto from her bedchamber.’

Question 7

Pg 3 Line 7
quae contra breviter fata est Amphrysia vates:

Answer 7

In reply to these words, the Amphryisian prophetess spoke briefly: