Aeneid Translation 3 - Androgeos makes a mistake

Question 1

primus se Danaum (370)

Answer 1

First out of the Greeks

Question 2

magna comitante caterva Androgeos offert nobis, (370,371)

Answer 2

Androgeos offered himself to us with a large mob with him,

Question 3

socia agmina credens inscius (371, 372)

Answer 3

believing that we were an allied multitiude, unaware,

Question 4

atque ultro verbis compellat amicis: (372)

Answer 4

and beyond that, he addresses us with friendly words:

Question 5

“festinate viri! nam quae tam sera moratur segnities?

Answer 5

“Hurry up chaps! For what is the slow dawdling which so delays you?

Question 6

alli rapiunt incensa feruntque Pergama:

Answer 6

The others are plundering and pillaging Troy as it burns:

Question 7

vos celsis nunc primum a navibus itis?”

Answer 7

are you going now for the first time from the tall ships?”

Question 8

dixit, et extemplo (neque enim responsa dabantur fida satis) sensit medio delapsus in hostis.

Answer 8

He spoke, and immediately (for no sufficiently trustworthy responses were being given) he sensed that he had fallen into the middle of the enemy.

Question 9

obstipuit retroque pedem cum voce repressit.

Answer 9

He became senseless and he pressed back his foot with his voice (he left while talking and then stopped talking)

Question 10

improvisum aspris veluti qui sentibus anguem pressit humi

Answer 10

Just like a man who steps on a snake he didn’t see

Question 11

nitens trepidusque

Answer 11

and stepping on it in the rough thorns;

Question 12

repente refugit attollentem iras et caerula colla tumentem,

Answer 12

alarmed, he suddenly runs from it as it rears up in anger, and its blue neck swells;

Question 13

haud secus Androgeos visu tremefactus abibat.

Answer 13

not at all was Androgeos trying to get away trembling at the sight of us.

Question 14

inruimus densis et circumfundimur armis, ignarosque loci passim et formdidine captos sternimus;

Answer 14

We rushed in and poured around them with closely packed weapons and caught by fear, unaware of the city’s layout in all directions, we lay them low;

Question 15

aspirat primo Fortuna labori.

Answer 15

fortune breathes favourably on our first endeavour.