Vergil's Aeneid book 2 lines 201-249

Laocoon, ductus Neptuno sorte sacerdos, sollemnes taurum ingentum mactabat ad aras.

Laocoon, chosen by lot as a priest for Neptune, was sacrificing a huge bull at the solemn altars.

Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta (horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt

However behold twin snakes from Tenedos through the Tranquil waters (I shudder recalling this) with immense coils lie upon the sea, and equally they stretch towards the shore.

Line 201: Case and Use of Neptuno?

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Line 201: Use of sacerdos?

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Line 202: What literary device is used?

Chiasmus

pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta iubaeque sanguineae superant undas;

whose chests raised above the waves and bloody crests overcome the waves

pars cetera pontum pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga.

the remaining part skims the sea from behind, and arches its immense backs in a coil

Fit sonitus spumante salo; iamque arva tenebant ardentesque oculos suffecti sanguine et igni sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora.

A sound is made from the foaming seawater; and already they were holding the fields, and having suffused their burning eyes with blood and fire, they were licking their hissing mouths with flickering tongues.

Diffigimus visu exsangues. Illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt;

We bloodless at the sight fled. They in certain formation seek Laocoon;

Line 209: Case and use of salo

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Line 210: Case and Use of sanguine/igni

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Line 212: Case and Use of visu?

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Line 212: Case and Use of agmine

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Line 210: Case and Use of Ardentes/oculos

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et primum parva duorum corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque implicat, et miseros morsu depascitur artus;

And first each serpent having embraced the small bodies of the two sons entangles them and feeds upon their miserable limbs with its bite

post ipsum auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem corripiunt, spirisque ligant ingentibus

Afterwards the man himself coming down to help and bearing arms they snatch up, and they bind him with their huge coils

Line 216: Case and use of auxilio

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et iam bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.

and already having embraced his middle twice, having given their scaly backs around his neck twice, they overwhelm him with their head and tall shoulders.

ille simul manibus tendit divellere nodos, perfusus sanie vittas atroque veneno, clamores simul horrendos ad sidera tollit:

He at the same time attempts to tear apart the knots with his hands, having been soaked with respect to his fillets with gore and black venom, at the same time he raises horrible shouts to the stars.

Line 219: Case and Use of capite/cervicibus

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Line 221: Case and Use of vittas

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qualis mugitus, fugit cum saucius aram taurus, et incertam excussit cervice securim.

just as the groans, when a wounded bull has fled the altar and shook an uncertain axe from its neck.

at gemini lapsu delubra ad summa dracones effugiunt saevaeque petunt Tritonidis arcem, sub pedibusque deae clipeique sub orbe teguntur.

But the twin snakes to the highest shrines by their gliding flee and they seek the citadel of savage Triton, both under the feet of the goddess and under the circle of her shield they are covered

Line 224: Case and Use of cervice?

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Line 225: Case and Use of lapsu?

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tum vero tremefacta novus per pectora cunctis insinuat pavor, et scelus expendisse merentem Laocoonta ferunt, sacrum qui cuspide robur laeserit, et tergo sceleratam intorserit hastam.

Then truly a new fear worms through the terrified chests for everyone, and they say that deserving Laocoon has paid for his wickedness, who struck the sacred oak with his spear, and twisted the wicked spear at the back.

ducendum ad sedes simulacrum orandaque divae numina conclamant.

They claim that the image must be led to its seat and the divine will of the goddess must be prayed to.

Line 228: Case and Use of cunctis?

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dividimus muros et moenia pandimus urbis. accingunt omnes operi, pedibusque rotarum subiciunt lapsus, et stuppea vincula collo intendunt:

We divide the walls and we open the gates of the city. Everyone prepares themselves for the work, they place the gliding of wheels underneath its feet, and they stretch hempen ropes from its neck

scandit fatalis machina muros, feta armis. pueri circum innuptaeque puellae sacra canunt, funemque manu contingere gaudent.

The fatal machine scales the wall pregnant with weapons. Boys and unmarried girls sing sacred things around it, and they rejoice to touch the rope with their hand

Line 235: Case and Use operi?

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Line 236: Case and Use of collo?

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illa subit, mediaeque minans inlabitur urbi.

That machine goes and glides threatening the middle of the city

O patria, O divum domus Ilium, et incluta bello moenia Dardanidum, quater ipso in limine portae substitit, atque utero sonitum quater arma dedere:

O my fatherland, O Troy home of the gods, and the walls of the Trojans renowned for war, four times on the threshold itself of the gate it stopped, and four times the arms gave a sound from its belly

Line 243: Case and Use of utero?

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instamus tamen immemores caecique furore, et monstrum infelix sacrata sistimus arce.

We stand however unaware and blinded by rage, and we establish the unlucky monster on the sacred citadel.

tunc etiam fatis aperit Cassandra futuris ora, dei iussu non umquam credita Teucris.

Even then Cassandra opens her mouth with the future fates, not ever believed by the Trojans by the order of the god.

Line 245: Case and Use of arce

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Line 246: Case and Use of Fatis

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Line 247: Case and Use of Teucris

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Line 247: Case and Use of iussu

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nos delubra deum miseri, quibus ultimus esset ille dies, festa velamus fronde per urbem.

We miserable ones, for whom that day was the last, we decorate the shrines of the gods with festive greenery throughout the city.