(GCSE) Nisus and Euryalus - Section 5 (Primary)

Question 1

silva fuit late dumis atque illice nigra

Answer 1

The forest far and wide was bristling with brambles and dusky oak,

Question 2

horrida, quam densi complerant undique sentes;

Answer 2

and the packed thorns covered them everywhere;

Question 3

rara per occultos lucebat semita callis.

Answer 3

the path barely shone through the secret pass.

Question 4

Euryalum tenebrae ramorum onerosaque praeda

Answer 4

The darkness of the branches and the heavy loot hindered

Question 5

impediunt, fallitque timor regione viarum.

Answer 5

Euryalus, and fear deceived him in finding where to go.

Question 6

Nisus abit; iamque imprudens euaserat hostis

Answer 6

Nisus got away; and now heedless he had escaped his enemies

Question 7

atque locos qui post Albae de nomine dicti

Answer 7

and he stood at the place which was afterwards called Albani, taken from the name

Question 8

Albani (tum rex stabula alta Latinus habebat),

Answer 8

of Alba (at that time King Latinus had his lofty stables)

Question 9

ut stetit et frustra absentem respexit amicum:

Answer 9

as he looked back for his missing friend in vain: