(GCSE) Nisus and Euryalus - Section 3 (Primary)

Question 1

impastus ceu plena leo per ouilia turbans

Answer 1

Just like a hungry lion causing havoc among the packed flocks of sheep

Question 2

(saudet enim vesana fames) manditque trahitque

Answer 2

(for its mad hunger urges it on) and chews and pulls at

Question 3

molle pecus mutumque metu, fremit ore cruento.

Answer 3

the delicate flock, silent in fear, and roars with its bloody mouth.

Question 4

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Answer 4

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Question 5

iamque ad Messapi socios tendebat; ibi ignem

Answer 5

And now he strode out to the companions of Messapus; there

Question 6

deficere extremum et religatos rite videbat

Answer 6

he saw the fire at the edge flicker and the horses bound according to the usual rites

Question 7

carpere gramen equos, breviter cum talia Nisus

Answer 7

crop the grass, but Nisus said these things briefly

Question 8

(sensit enim nimia caede atque cupidine ferri)

Answer 8

(for he realized Euryalus was carried away with too much slaughter and lust for the sword)

Question 9

‘absistamus’ ait ‘nam lux inimica propinquat.

Answer 9

‘Let us leave, for our enemy light is drawing close.

Question 10

poenarum exhaustam satis est, via facta per hostis.’

Answer 10

Enough punishment has been drawn, and a path made through the enemy.’