(GCSE) Nisus and Euryalus - Section 2 (Primary) Flashcards
Protinus armati incedunt; quos omnis eunti
Armed, they advanced straight away, the whole group of leaders.
primorum manus ad portas, iuvenumque senumque
both young and old, led them as they went to the gates,
prosequitur votis. nec non pulcher Iulus
with prayers. No less did handsome Iulus
ante annos animumque gerens curamque virilem
who had a sense of responsibility maturer than his age and a masculine spirit.
multa patri mandata dabat portanda; sed aurae
was giving many instructions which had to be taken to his father; but the winds
omnia discerpunt et nubibus inrita donant.
scattered them all and offered them meaningless to the clouds.
Egressi superant fossas noctisque per umbram
Having left they got past the ditches and through the shadow of the night
castra inimica petunt, multis tamen ante futuri
they sought the enemy camp, still about to cause the deaths of many men
exitio. passim somno vinoque per herbam
Everywhere in the grass they saw bodies
corpora fusa vident, arrectos litore currus
stretched out by sleep and wine, chariots uprighted on the shore,
inter loca rotasque viros, simul arma iacere,
men among the leather harnesses and wheels, and also both the weapons
vina simul. prior Hyrtacides sic ore locutus
and wine jars lying around. First the son of Hyrtacus said this:
‘Euryale, audendum dextra: nunc ipsa vocat res.
‘Euryalus, it is time for your right hand to summon its courage: now the moment itself calls for this.
hac iter est. tu, ne qua manus se attollere nobis
The path is this way. You guard against any hand being able to raise itself against us
a tergo possit, custodi et consule longe;
from behind, and keep an extended watch;
