Lines 458-485

Question 1

evado ad summi fastigia culminis, unde

Answer 1

I escape to the highest point of the roof, from where

Question 2

tela manu miseri iactabant inrita Teucri.

Answer 2

the wretched Trojans were hurling useless spears with vigour.

Question 3

turrim in praecipiti stantem summisque sub astra

Answer 3

There was a tower standing on a sheer edge and raised from the top of the roof to the stars

Question 4

eductam tectis, unde omnis Troia videri

Answer 4

from which the whole of Troy

Question 5

et Danaum solitae naves et Achaica castra,

Answer 5

the ships of the Greeks and the Greek camp (had been accustomed to) could be seen,

Question 6

adgressi ferro circum, qua summa labantes

Answer 6

Having attacked round all its sides with tools, where the highest

Question 7

iuncturas tabulata dabant, convellimus altis

Answer 7

storeys offered unsteady joints, we tore it from its high

Question 8

sedibus impulimusque, ea lapsa repente ruinam

Answer 8

position and gave it a push, as it fell suddenly

Question 9

cum sonitu trahit et Danaum super agmina late

Answer 9

it dragged along destruction with a roar and fell far and wide over the host of Greeks.

Question 10

incidit. ast alii subeunt, nec saxa nec ullum

Answer 10

But others took their place, and in the meantime neither rocks nor any

Question 11

telorum interea cessat genus.

Answer 11

type of weapons ceased.

Question 12

Vestibulum ante ipsum primoque in limine Pyrrhus

Answer 12

Before the very doorway and in the first threshold, Pyrrhus

Question 13

exsultat telis et luce coruscus aena;

Answer 13

exalts in his weapons, glittering with bronze light;

Question 14

qualis ubi in lucem coluber mala gramina pastus,

Answer 14

like when a snake that has grazed on harmful herbs,

Question 15

frigida sub terra tumidum quem bruma tegebat,

Answer 15

which cold winter once concealed swollen up beneath the earth,

Question 16

nunc, positis novus exuviis nitidusque iuventa,

Answer 16

now fresh with its scales shed and shining with youth,

Question 17

lubrica convolvit sublato pectore terga

Answer 17

coils together its slippery back, with its body raised into the light,

Question 18

arduus ad solem, et linguis micat ore trisulcis.

Answer 18

rising up to the sun, and flickers from its mouth with its triple-forked tongue.

Question 19

una ingens Periphas et equorum agitator Achillis,

Answer 19

together with him, huge Periphas and the driver of the horses of Achilles,

Question 20

armiger Automedon, una omnis Scyria pubes

Answer 20

Automedon, the armour-bearer, and with him all the Scyrian youth

Question 21

succedunt tecto et flammas ad culmina iactant.

Answer 21

advances from the building and hurls flames to the rooftops.

Question 22

ipse inter primos correpta dura bipenni

Answer 22

He himself, among the first with an axe seized,

Question 23

limina perrumpit postisque a cardine vellit

Answer 23

breaks through the strong doorway and tears the bronze posts from their hinges;

Question 24

aeratos; iamque excisa trabe firma cavavit

Answer 24

and now with a beam cut out, he hollowed out the strong

Question 25

robora et ingentem lato dedit ore fenestram.

Answer 25

wood and produced a huge opening with a gaping mouth.

Question 26

apparet domus intus et atria longa patescunt;

Answer 26

The house within appears and long hallways lie open;

Question 27

apparent Priami et veterum penetralia regum,

Answer 27

The inner rooms of Priam and of the ancient kings appear,

Question 28

armatosque videt stantes in limine primo.

Answer 28

and he sees armed men standing in front of the doorway.