Lines 171-194

Question 1

nec dubiis ea signa dedit Tritonia monstris.

Answer 1

And with no doubtful portents, Minerva gave signs of this.

Question 2

vix positum castris simulacrum: arsere coruscae

Answer 2

Scarcely had the image been placed in the camp: glittering

Question 3

luminibus flammae arrectis, salsusque per artus

Answer 3

flames blazed from her uplifted eyes, and a salty sweat flowed over her limbs

Question 4

sudor iit, terque ipsa solo (mirabile dictu)

Answer 4

and three times she herself (wondrous to report)

Question 5

emicuit parmamque ferens hastamque trementem.

Answer 5

leapt from the ground bearing a shield and a quivering spear.

Question 6

extemplo temptanda fuga canit aequora Calchas,

Answer 6

Immediately, Calchas prophesised that the seas should be attempted in flight

Question 7

nec posse Argolicis exscindi Pergama telis

Answer 7

and that Pergamum could not be destroyed by Greek weapons,

Question 8

omina ni repetant Argis numenque reducant

Answer 8

unless they seek again the omens in Argos and bring back the divine being

Question 9

quod pelago et curvis secum avexere carinis.

Answer 9

which they carried away with them across the sea and in their curved ships.

Question 10

et nunc quod patrias vento petiere Mycenas

Answer 10

And now, as to the fact that they have sought native Mycenae with the wind

Question 11

arma deosque parant comites pelagoque remenso

Answer 11

they are preparing arms and the accompanying gods, and they will be upon us unexpectedly, having re-crossed the sea;

Question 12

improvisi aderunt; ita digerit omina Calchas.

Answer 12

thus Calchas interprets the omens.

Question 13

hanc pro Palladio moniti, pro numine laeso

Answer 13

Having been advised, they have set up this statue instead of the Palladium for the wounded divinity

Question 14

effigiem statuere, nefas quae triste piaret.

Answer 14

so that it may expiate the wretched wrongdoing.

Question 15

hanc tamen immensam Calchas attollere molem

Answer 15

However, Calchas ordered (them) to raise high this structure

Question 16

roboribus textis caeloque educere iussit,

Answer 16

with interlocking timbers and to raise it to the sky,

Question 17

ne recipi portis aut duci in moenia posset,

Answer 17

so that it could not be recieved within the gates or led inside the walls,

Question 18

neu populum antiqua sub religione tueri.

Answer 18

nor protect the people under [the shelter of] an ancient faith.

Question 19

nam si vestra manus violasset dona Minervae,

Answer 19

For if your hands should violate the gifts to Minerva,

Question 20

tum magnum exitium (quod di prius omen in ipsum

Answer 20

then great destruction (let the gods direct this omen on himself first!)

Question 21

convertant!) Priami imperio Phrygibusque futurum;

Answer 21

will happen to the empire of Priam and the Phrygians;

Question 22

sin manibus vestris vestram ascendisset in urbem,

Answer 22

But if it should ascend into your city by your hands,

Question 23

ultro Asiam magno Pelopea ad moenia bello

Answer 23

going further still, Asia will advance to the walls of Pelops in great war

Question 24

venturam, et nostros ea fata manere nepotes.’

Answer 24

and those fates will await our descendants.