Aeneid Test Review

Exemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra

Immediately, the limbs of Aeneas are loosened by the cold.

Ingemit et duplices tendens ad sidera palmas

He groans and stretches both palms to the stars.

Talia voce refert: “O terque quaterque beati…”

He says with his voice: “O three and four times blessed…”

Quis ante ora patrum Troiae sub moenibus altis…

To whom before the mouths of their fathers under the high walls of Troy…

Contigit oppetere! Danaum fortissime gentis.

It happened to meet death! O bravest of the people of the Greeks.

Tydide! Mene Iliacis occumbere campis

Son of Tydius! That I wasnt able to meet death on the

non potuisse tuaque unimam hanc effundere dextra

Trojan fields and to pour out this spirit by your right hand

Saevus ubi Aeacidae telo iacet Hector

Where savage Hector lies low by the weapon of the grandson of Aeacius (Achilles)

ubi ingens Sarpedon, ubi tot Simois correpta sub undis

Where huge Sarpedon lies, where the Sanios river turns so many

Scuta virum galeasque et fortia corpora volvit.

shields of men and so many helmets of men and so many strong bodies of the men having been snatched up.

What is the subject of the verb “solvuntur”?

Membra (limbs)

What is the scansion of the line?

**know

Type of participle in “tendens”?

Present active participle

What figure of speech is “O terque quaterque beati”?

Apostrophe

What is the case and reason of “Danaum fortissime gentis”?

Genitive; partitive

tydides

diomedes (greek)

danaum

Greeks

Hector

Trojan prince

Sarpedon

trojan ally

Urbs antiqua fuit (Tyrii tenuere coloni):

There was an ancient city (colonized by the Tyrians)

Context/translation of short answer passage:

“Urbs antique fuit…tenditque foetque”

The ancient city (the colonists of Tyre held) was Carthage, across from Italy and far from the Tiberian ports, rich in resources and the harshest in the pursuits of war; which one Juno is said to have cherish more than all other lands, with Samos having been held after: here were her weapons, here her chariots; the goddess, if the fates permit, now and then both holds and cherishes this kingdom for her people

SA: Aeneae

genitive “of aeneas”

SA: frigore

ablative of means

Identify: Extemplō Aenēae solvuntur frīgore membra

Subject=limbs(membra), passive verb “tur” ending

SA: beati

individuals who died

SA: quis

qui(bu)s dative of interest

Identify: quīs ante ōra patrum

synecdoche: mouth refers to face

SA: Tydide

patronymic and apostrophe: son of Tydius

SA: tuaque dextra (manu)

ablative of means

identify: saevus ubi Aeacidae tēlō iacet Hector, ubi ingēns 

Sarpēdōn, ubi tot Simoīs correpta sub undīs 

anaphora (ubi)

SA: aeacidae

patronymic

SA: telo

ablative of cause: by the weapon

SA: iacet

ellipsis: lies

Identify: correpta sub undīs 

present passive participle: having been snatched up under the waves

SA: virum

syncopated genitive plural: vir(or)um

SA: fuit

There was: perfect tense of sum, esse

SA: “tryii tenuere coloni”

Genitive "of Tyre"

SA: Karthago

Nom. singular goes with urbs

SA: Italiam contra

preposition taking accusitive: across from Italy

SA: tiberinaque

goes with ostia: Tiberian ports

SA: longe

far

Purpose of sentence: dīves opum studiīsque asperrima bellī

describes Karthago

SA: fertur

passive: “is said”

SA: terrīs magis omnibus

abl. of comparison: more than all lands

SA: posthabitā coluisse Samō

abl. absolute ("with Samos having been held after")
coluisse: perfect infinitive form (of colo, to cherish.)

SA: hīc illius arma, hīc currus fuit;

anaphora (hic)

gentibus

dative"for her people"

SA: sī quā fāta sinant

present subjunctive