Lines 260-307 Flashcards
(121 cards)
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What happens in lines 251-259?
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Aeneas prays to Cybele for her favour. Dawn breaks, and he prepares his men to fight.
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iamque in conspectu…habet
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and now he had in his sight
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Teucros…et sua castra
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the Trojans and his own camp
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stans celsa in puppi
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standing on the lofty stern
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cum deinde
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when at once
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sinistra…extulit
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with his left hand he brandished
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clipeum…ardentem
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his blazing shield
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clamorem…tollunt Dardanidae
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the Trojans raised a shout
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ad sidera…e muris
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to the stars from their walls
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spes addita suscitat iras
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added hope roused their anger
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tela manu iaciunt
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and they hurled spears, each with their hands
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quales…Strymoniae…grues
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just like Strymonian cranes that
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dant signa
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give a sign
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sub nubibus atris
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beneath black clouds
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atque aethera tranant
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and fly across the upper air
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cum sonitu
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with their honking
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fugiuntque Notos
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and flee storm-winds
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clamore secundo
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with glad sound
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at…ea mira videri
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but those things seemed strange
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Rutulo regi ducibusque…Ausoniis
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to the Rutulian king and his Italian leaders
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donec…puppes respiciunt
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until they looked back at the sterns
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versas ad litora
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turned towards the shore
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totumque…aequor
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and saw that the whole sea
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adlabi classibus
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was gliding along towards the fleets
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ardet apex capiti
a point of flame burned on his head
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(-que)...flamma funditur
and a flame poured
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cristisque a vertice
from the crest at the top
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et...umbo...aureus
and the golden shield boss
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vastos...vomit...ignes
spewed out vast amounts of fire
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non secus ac
just as
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si quando
at those times when
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cometae sanguinei
blood-red comets
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lugubre rubent
shine red mournfully
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liquida...nocte
in the clear night
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aut Sirius ardor
or when the heat of Sirius
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ille...ferens
that heat that brings
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sitim morbosque
thirst and diseases
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mortalibus aegris
to weary mortals
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nascitur
rises
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et...contristat...caelum
and saddens the sky
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laevo...lumine
with its inauspicious light
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tamen...fiducia
however the courage
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litora praecipere
to take the shores in advance
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pellere terra
to drive off from the land
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venientes
those who were coming in to attack
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haud...cessit (subject is fiducia)
did not depart
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audaci Turno
from bold Turnus
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ultro...ultro
without further ado...without further ado
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animos tollit
he raised their spirits
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dictis atque increpat
and rebuked them with his words
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quod votis optastis adest
what you have longed for in your prayers is here
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perfringere dextra
to break through with might and main
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Mars ipse
the very fight is
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in manibus...viris
in the hands of real men
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nunc esto quisque...memor
now let each man be mindful
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coniugis...suae
of his own wife
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tectique
and of his home
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nunc...referto
now let him recall
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magna...facta
the great deeds
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patrum laudes
those praiseworthy deeds of the fathers.
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ultro occurramus
without further ado let us run...to meet them
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ad undam
to the water
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dum trepidi
while they are fearful
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(-que) labant vestigia prima
and the first footsteps...are shaky
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egressisque
of those who have disembarked
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audentes Fortuna iuvat
Fortune favours the bold (lit. those who dare)
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haec ait
he said these things
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et secum versat
and was debating with himself
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quos...possit
whom he might be able
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ducere contra
to lead to counter the enemy
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vel quibus...possit
or to whom he might be able
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obsessos...concredere muros
to entrust the siege of the walls
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interea Aeneas socios...exponit
Meanwhile Aeneas was putting his comrades ashore
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de puppibus altis
from their high ships
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pontibus
with gangways
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multi servare
many kept watch on
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recursus languentis pelagi
the ebbing of the sluggish ocean
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et...se credere
and trusted themselves
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brevibus...saltu
to the shallows with a leap
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per remos alii
others came down along their oars
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speculatus litora Tarchon
Tarchon, having kept a close eye on the shore
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qua vada non sperat
where he didn't expect shallow water
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nec fracta...unda
and the broken waves did not
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remurmurat
murmur back
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sed mare
but where the sea
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inoffensum...adlabitur
glided unimpeded
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crescenti...aestu
on the swelling tide
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advertit subito proras
he suddenly turned his prows
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sociosque precatur
and entreated his allies
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nunc, o lecta manus
now, o chosen crew
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validis incumbite remis
lean on your sturdy oars
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tollite
row!
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ferte rates
drive your boats
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findite rostris
cleave...with your prows
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inimicam...hanc terram
this enemy land
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(-que) premat ipsa carina
and let the very keels form
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sulcumque sibi
furrows for themselves
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nec...recuso
(and) I do not hesitate
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frangere...puppim
to wreck my ship
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tali...statione
with such an anchorage
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arrepta tellure semel
once the land has been seized
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postquam effatus Tarchon
after Tarchon had spoken out
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quae talia
things such as these
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socii consurgere tonsis
his allies rose to their oars
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spumantesque rates...inferre
and carried their foaming boats onto
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arvis...Latinis
the Latin fields
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donec rostra tenent siccum
until the prows held the dry land
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et sedere carinae omnes innocuae
and all the keels sat unharmed
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sed non puppis tua, Tarchon
but not your ship, Tarchon
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namque inflicta vadis
for, dashed against the shallows
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dum pendet...anceps
while it hung wavering
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dorso...iniquo
on an uneven sandbank
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sustentata diu
supported for a long time
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fluctusque fatigat
and wearied the waves
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solvitur
it broke up
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atque viros mediis exponit in undis
and tipped the men out in the middle of the waves
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quos...impediunt
whom...obstructed
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fragmina remorum
the fragments of the oars
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et fluitantia transtra
and floating cross-benches
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retrahitque pedes...unda
and the waves tugged their feet away
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simul...relabens
at the same time as receding
