(GCSE) Nisus and Euryalus - Section 7 (Primary)

Question 1

dixerat et toto conixus copore ferrum

Answer 1

He had said this and hurled the spear with his whole body

Question 2

conicit. hasta volans noctis diverberat umbras

Answer 2

The flying spear cleaved through the shadows of the night

Question 3

et venit aversi in tergum Sulmonis ibique

Answer 3

and struck the back of Sulmo who has turned away, and there

Question 4

frangitur, ac fisso transit praecordia ligno.

Answer 4

it broke, and pierced his heart with its split shaft

Question 5

voluitur ille vomens calidum de pectore flumen

Answer 5

That man rolled over spewing out a hot stream from his chest

Question 6

frigidus et longis singultibus illa pulsat

Answer 6

while he went cold and grasped his abdomen with drawn out convulsions.

Question 7

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Answer 7

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Question 8

talia dicta dabat, sed viribus ensis adactus

Answer 8

He was saying these words, but the sword driven with strength

Question 9

transadigit costas et candida pectora rumpit

Answer 9

went straight through the ribs and burst through the white chest.

Question 10

voluitur Euryalus leto, pulchrusque per artus

Answer 10

Euryalus rolled over in death, and down his handsome limbs

Question 11

it cruor inque umeros cervix conlapsa recumbit

Answer 11

the blood trickled and his neck fell slumped upon his shoulders:

Question 12

Purpureus veluti cum flos succisus aratro

Answer 12

just as when a purple flower cuts down by the plough

Question 13

langvescit moriens, lassuove papavera collo

Answer 13

becomes weak as it dies, or a poppy drops its head by its exhausted stem

Question 14

demisere caput pluvia cum forte gravantur

Answer 14

when the rain storms by chance weigh it down.