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Question 1

Heu nihil invitis fas quemquam fidere divis!

Answer 1

Alas it is not right for anyone to trust unwilling gods!

Question 2

ecce trahebatur passis Priameia virgo

Answer 2

Behold, the maiden Cassandra, daughter of Priam, with loose hair, was being dragged

Question 3

crinibus a templo Cassandra adytisque Minervae

Answer 3

from the temple and the shrines of Minerva

Question 4

ad caelum tendens ardentia lumina frustra,

Answer 4

raising her blazing eyes to heavrn in vain,

Question 5

lumina, nam teneras arcebant vincula palmas.

Answer 5

her eyes, for chains were restraining her delicate hands.

Question 6

non tulit hanc speciem furiata mente Coroebus

Answer 6

With his mind enraged, Coroebus did not bear this sight

Question 7

et sese medium iniecit periturus in agmen

Answer 7

and he threw himself into the middle of the ranks, ready to die,

Question 8

consequimur cunti et densis incurrimus armis.

Answer 8

All of us follow and rush in heavily armed.

Question 9

hic primum ex alto delubri culmine telis

Answer 9

Here first we are overwhelmed by the missiles of our [own men] from the high roof-top of the shrine

Question 10

nostrorum obruimur oriturque miserrima caedes

Answer 10

and a very wretched slaughter arises

Question 11

armorum facie et Graiarum errore iubarum.

Answer 11

from the appearance of our armour and the confusion of our Greek crests.

Question 12

tum Danai gemitu atque ereptae virginis ira

Answer 12

Then, with a groan and anger at the maiden’s rescue, the Greeks

Question 13

undique collecti invadunt, acerrimus Aiax

Answer 13

press on after they collected from all sides, very fierce Aiax

Question 14

et gemini Atridae Dolopumque exercitus omnis:

Answer 14

and the twin sons of Atreus and the whole army of the Dolopians:

Question 15

adversi rupto ceu quondam turbine venti

Answer 15

Just as sometimes when a storm has burst and the winds

Question 16

confligunt, Zephyrusque Notusque et laetus Eois

Answer 16

dash together from different directions, and the west wind, and the south wind and the east wind, thrilling

Question 17

Eurus equis; stridunt silvae saevitque tridenti

Answer 17

in the horses of the Dawn; the woods whistle,

Question 18

spumeus atque imo Nereus ciet aquora fundo.

Answer 18

foaming Nereus rages with his trident and stirs up the seas from their deepest depths.

Question 19

illi etiam, si quos obscura nocte per umbram

Answer 19

If there are any whom we routed in the dark night through the shadow

Question 20

fudimus insidiis totaque agitavimus urbe,

Answer 20

by our trickery and chased through the whole city,

Question 21

apparent; primi clipeos mentitaque tela

Answer 21

they still appear; they are first to recogniseour shields and deceptive weapons

Question 22

agnoscunt atque ora sono discordia signant.

Answer 22

and mark out our speech as foreign from its sound.

Question 23

ilicet obruimur numero, primusque Coroebus

Answer 23

At once we are overwhelmed by their number, and Coroebus falls first

Question 24

Penelei dextra divae armipotentis ad aram

Answer 24

by the right hand of Peneleus at the altar of the goddess powerful in arms

Question 25

procumbit; cadit et Rhipeus, iustissimus unus

Answer 25

Rhipeus also falls,

Question 26

qui fuit in Teucris et servantissimus aequi

Answer 26

who among the Trojans was the most just and most observant of fairness

Question 27

(dis aliter visum); pereunt Hypanisque Dymasque

Answer 27

(regarded by the gods differently); both Hypanis and Dymas perish,

Question 28

confixi a sociis; nec te tua plurima, Panthu,

Answer 28

stabbed by their own friends; nor did your most abundant [examples of]

Question 29

labentem pietas nec Apollinis infula texit.

Answer 29

piety nor the headband of Apollo protect you, Panthus, from falling.

Question 30

Iliaci cineres et flamma extrema meorum,

Answer 30

Ashes of Troy and the final fire of my people,

Question 31

testor, in occasu vestro nec tela nec ullas

Answer 31

I call on you to witness that in your fall I avoided neither weapons nor any

Question 32

vitavisse vices Danaum et - si fata fuissent

Answer 32

hazards of the Greeks, and if it had been my fate

Question 33

ut caderem - meruisse manu. divellimur inde,

Answer 33

that I should fall - I earned it by my own hand. We are torn apart from there,

Question 34

Iphitus et Pelias mecum (quorum Iphitus aevo

Answer 34

Iphitus and Pelias with me (of whom Iphitus

Question 35

iam gravior, Pelias et vulnere tardus Ulixi),

Answer 35

is now too burdened because of his age, and Pelias is slow because of a wound from Ulysses),

Question 36

protinus ad sedes Priami clamore vocati.

Answer 36

immediately summoned to the halls of Priam by the shouting.