Aenead Test 2 Passage 1

Extemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra:

Immediately Aeneas groans, his limbs are loosened by chilly fear:

Aenea - Genitive

solvuntur - subject is membra, gentitive passive voice

frigore - metonomy

ingemit, et duplicis tendens ad sidera palmas

and stretching both hands up to the heavens

duplicis - descirbes hands / palmas

tendens - present active participle

talia voce refert: 'O terque quaterque beati,

he cries out in this voice such things: “ O both three and four times blessed

“O” - apostrophe - calling out to something not there

quis ante ora patrum Troiae sub moenibus altis               95

for whom happened to meet death in front of the mouths of their fathers under Troy’s high walls

quis - syncopated dative case for whom

altis - describe moeniubus city walls

contigit oppetere! O Danaum fortissime gentis

O the most brave Diomedes of the tribe of the Greeks, son of Tydides!

Danaum — Genitive Plural and syncopated, of the greeks

Tydide! Mene Iliacis occumbere campis

o that I was not able to meet death in the fields of Troy,

Tydide - Patronymic refers to diameses

Illacis - dative to go with occumbere

campis - dative go with occumbere

non potuisse, tuaque animam hanc effundere dextra,

and to pour out this last breath by your right hand,

Blue section - chiasmus

saevus ubi Aeacidae telo iacet Hector, ubi ingens

where savage Hector lies low by the weapon of Achilles, and where giant…

Sarpedon, ubi tot Simois correpta sub undis               100

Sarpedon lies, where so many shields having been carried away and turn,

scuta virum galeasque et fortia corpora volvit?'

where helmets, and brave bodies of men turn under the waves of the Simois!”

Virum - Syncopated Genitive Plural