A Vergil Workbook Lesson 2: Book 1. 34-80

Juno, in her speech to herself (lines 37-49) expresses her feeling that "it isn't fair." What is it that she wants to do but isn't allowed to? Why is she envious of Minerva

She isn't allwoed to continue in her quest of waging war on the Trojans. Minerva was allowed to take revenge but Juno, the queen of the gods, is not.

Why did Minerva kill Ajax

Guild and madness b/c he raped Cassandra in her temple

How does Vergil explain the natural phenomenon that the winds sometimes blow and sometimes are calm?

Aeolus has control over the gates letting the winds in and out

Vergil uses a metaphor in line 62-63 to characterize Aeolus's control of the winds. How does this metaphor illuminate the action it describes?

Reins implies that Aeolus does not have complete control over the winds, rather he can only guide them as reins guide a pack animal

Identify two things that Juno promises to Aeolus in her speech.

Marriage to a Nymph, Deiopea, and many children

Vulnus (line 36) is modified by

b aeternum (line 36)

Pallas in line 39, is another name for

c. Minerva

The case and number of Argivum (line 40) is

c. genitive plural

In line 44, illum refers to

b. Ajax

The metrical pattern of the first four feet of line 49 is

d. dactyl-spondee-spondee-spondee

The world loca (line 51) is in apposition to

patriam (line 51)

Line 55 contains an example of

b. alliteration

In line 59, -que connects

b. ferant and verrant (line 59)

In line 59, secum is translated

d. with him

The antecedent of qui (line 62)

a. regem (line 62)

The phrase divum... rex (lin3 65) refers to

d. Jupiter

The case and number of fluctus (line 66) is

b. accusative plural

In line 67, the phrase gens inimica mihi describes

a. Trojans

From line 68, we learn that

d. the defeated Trojans are carrying the Penates into Ilium

In line 70, dissice is

c. present imperative

Why is Deiopea an especially valuable bride?

a. she is the most beautiful

The form iungam (line 73) is a

d. future indicative

Line 76 contains an

a. indirect question

Lines 78-79 contian the rhetorical device

b. chiasmus

In lines 78-80, Aeolus says that he will fulfill Juno's request because

c. she has given him whatever power he has