Section 2, Lines 57-76

Question 1

Ecce, manus iuvenem interea post terta revinctum

Answer 1

Behold, meanwhile, Trojan shepherds, with a great cry,

Question 2

pastores magno ad regem clamore trahebant

Answer 2

were dragging a young man bound with his hands tied behind his back to the king,

Question 3

Dardanidae, qui se ignotum venientibus ultro

Answer 3

a stranger who had offered himself up, voluntarily, to (those) coming

Question 4

hoc ipsum ut strueret Troiamque aperiret Achivis,

Answer 4

to accomplish this very thing and to open up Troy to the Aechaeans,

Question 5

obtulerat, fidens animi atque in utrumque paratus,

Answer 5

bold of spirit and prepared for either (event)

Question 6

sue versare dolos seu certae occumbere morti.

Answer 6

whether to weave tricks or to meet certain death.

Question 7

undique visendi studio Troiana iuventus

Answer 7

From all sides Trojan youth rushes,

Question 8

circumfusa ruit certantque inludere capto.

Answer 8

having poured around out of eagerness for spectating and they compete to mock the prisoner.

Question 9

accipe nunc Danaum insidias et crimine ab uno disce omnis.

Answer 9

Hear, now, the treacheries of the Greeks and from one man’s crime, learn about all (of them).

Question 10

namque ut conspectu in medio turbatus, inermis

Answer 10

For when he stood in full view, confused, unarmed,

Question 11

constitit atque oculis Phrygia agmina circumspexit,

Answer 11

and he looked around Phrygian battlelines with his eyes,

Question 12

‘heu, quae nunc tellus,’ inquit, ‘quae me aequora possunt

Answer 12

he said, ‘alas, what land, what seas can receive me now?

Question 13

accipere? aut quid iam misero mihi denique restat,

Answer 13

Or what now remains finally for wretched me,

Question 14

cui neque apud Danaos usquam locus, et super ipsi

Answer 14

to whom there is not a place anywhere among the Greeks, and moreover,

Question 15

Dardanidae infensi poenas cum sanguine poscunt?’

Answer 15

the hostile Trojans themselves demand punishment with blood?’

Question 16

quo gemitu conversi animi compressus et omnis

Answer 16

By this lament, our minds were changed and all violence was checked.

Question 17

impetus. hortamur fari quo sanguine cretus

Answer 17

We urge him to say what blood he was sprung from,

Question 18

quidve ferat; memoret quae sit fiducia capto.

Answer 18

and what [news] he brings; let him say on what hope he, having been captured, could rely.
(what trust there could be in him having been captured)

Question 19

[ille haec, deposita tandem formidine, fatur].

Answer 19

He says these things with fear put aside at last.