Lines 268-297

Question 1

Tempus erat quo prima quies mortalibus aegris

Answer 1

It was the time when first sleep begins for weary mortals,

Question 2

incipit et dono divum gratissima serpit.

Answer 2

and most welcome, it creeps on as a gift of the gods.

Question 3

in somnis, ecce, ante oculos maestissimus Hector

Answer 3

In a dream, behold, before my eyes most sorrowful Hector

Question 4

visus adesse mihi largosque effundere fletus,

Answer 4

seemed to appear to me, and to pour out abundant tears,

Question 5

raptatus bigis ut quondam, aterque cruento

Answer 5

as once dragged by chariots, and black with bloody dust /(and soaked in blood)

Question 6

pulvere perque pedes traiectus lora tumentis.

Answer 6

and with leather straps pierced/(pulled) through his swelling feet.

Question 7

ei mihi, qualis erat, quantum mutatus ab illo

Answer 7

Oh my, what a state he was in, how very changed from that

Question 8

Hectore qui redit exuvias indutus Achilli

Answer 8

Hector, who returned dressed in the spoils of Achilles

Question 9

vel Danaum Phrygios iaculatus puppibus ignis!

Answer 9

or (having) hurled Phrygian fires at the ships of the Greeks!

Question 10

squalentem barbam et concretos sanguine crinis

Answer 10

bearing a rough beard and hair matted with blood

Question 11

vulneraque illa gerens, quae circum plurima muros

Answer 11

and those wounds, which he received in great numbers around the walls of his native city

Question 12

accepit patrios, ultro flens ipse videbar

Answer 12

Unprompted I seemed, weeping,

Question 13

compellare virum et maestas expromere voces:

Answer 13

to address the man myself and to utter sad cries:

Question 14

‘o lux Dardaniae, spes o fidissima Teucrum,

Answer 14

‘Oh light of Dardania, oh most loyal hope of the Trojans,

Question 15

quae tantae tenuere morae? quibus Hector ab oris

Answer 15

what delays so great have held you? From what shores,

Question 16

exspectate venis? ut te post multa tuorum

Answer 16

longed-for Hector have you come? How after so many deaths of your people

Question 17

funera, post varios hominumque urbisque labores

Answer 17

after the various toils of men and the city

Question 18

defessi aspicimus! quae causa indigna serenos

Answer 18

we gaze exhausted at you! What undeserved cause

Question 19

foedavit vultus? aut cur haec vulnera cerno?’

Answer 19

has defiled your serene face? Or why do I see these wounds?’

Question 20

ille nihil, nec me quaerentem vana moratur,

Answer 20

He [replies] nothing, nor does he give attention to me, asking pointless things,

Question 21

sed graviter gemitus imo de pectore ducens,

Answer 21

but gravely drawing groans from the bottom of his chest,

Question 22

‘heu fuge, nate dea, teque his’ ait ‘eripe flammis.

Answer 22

he said ‘alas flee, [you] goddess-born, and rescue yourself from these flames.

Question 23

hostis habet muros: ruit alto a culmine Troia.

Answer 23

The enemy holds the walls; Troy is falling from its high summit.

Question 24

sat patriae Priamoque datum: si Pergama dextra

Answer 24

Enough has been given to your native land and to Priam: if Pergama

Question 25

defendi possent, etiam hac defensa fuissent.

Answer 25

could be defended by any right hand, it would have been defended by this one also.

Question 26

sacra suosque tibi commendat Troia penatis:

Answer 26

Troy entrusts its sacred objects and household gods / Penates to you:

Question 27

hos cape fatorum comites, his moenia quaere

Answer 27

Take these as companions of your destiny, for these seek

Question 28

magna pererrato statues quae denique ponto.’

Answer 28

mighty city-walls which you will establish eventually having wandered over the sea.’

Question 29

sic ait et manibus vittas Vestamque potentem aeternumque adytis effert penetralibus ignem.

Answer 29

Thus he speaks, and he brings out the garlands in his hands from the innermost shrines, and powerful Vesta and the eternal fire.