Aeneid 57-72

Question 1

ecce, manus iuvenem interea post terga revinctum

Answer 1

Behold! Meanwhile a young man with his hands bound behind his back

Question 2

pastores magno ad regem clamore trahebant Dardanidae

Answer 2

Trojan shepherds were dragging with a loud noise to the king

Question 3

qui se ignotum venientibus ultro, hoc ipsum ut strueret Troiamque aperiret Achivis,

Answer 3

who had offered himself voluntarily to them as they approached, so that he might contrive this very thing and open up Troy to the Greeks,

Question 4

fidens animi atque in utrumque paratus, seu versare dolos seu certae occumbere morti.

Answer 4

trusting in his courage and ready for either, either to spin his tricks or to meet with certain death.

Question 5

undique visendi studio Troiana iuventus circumfusa ruit certantque inludere capto.

Answer 5

From all sides, eager to see, the Trojan youth pouring round rush and compete to mock the captive.

Question 6

accipe nunc Danaum insidias et crimine ab uno disce omnis.

Answer 6

Hear now of the tricks of the Greeks and from one crime learn them all.

Question 7

namque ut conspect in medio turbatus, inermis, constitit atque oculis Phrygia agmina circumspexit,

Answer 7

For indeed, when, in full view, confused, unarmed. he halted and looked around the Trojan crowd with his eyes,

Question 8

‘heu, quae nunc tellus,’ inquit, ‘quae me aequora possunt accipere?

Answer 8

“Alas,” he said “what land, what sea can receive me now?

Question 9

aut quid iam misero mihi denique restat, cui neque apud Danaos usquam locus,

Answer 9

Or what in the end lies in store for poor me now, for whom nowhere among the Greeks is there a place,

Question 10

et super ipsi Dardanidae infensi poenas cum sanguine poscunt?’

Answer 10

and in addition the hostile Trojans themselves are demanding a punishment with blood?”