Thursday

LATIN D-VIRGIL'S AENEID, BOOKS I-VI

1.30-3.30 p. m.

Translate the following passages, and answer the questions on them. The translation should be exact, but in clear and idiomatic English.

I.

Obstipuit primo aspectu Sidonia Dido,
Casu deinde viri tanto, et sic ore locuta est:
"Quis te, nate dea, per tanta pericula casus
Insequitur? Quae vis immanibus applicat oris?
Tune ille Aeneas quem Dardanio Anchisae
Alma Venus Phrygii genuit Simoentis ad undam?
Atque equidem Teucrum memini Sidona venire
Finibus expulsum patriis, nova regna petentem.
Auxilio Beli; genitor tum Belus opimam

Vastabat Cyprum et victor dicione tenebat."-i, 613–622.

a) Give the syntax of oris, and change it to the prose construction.

615

620

b) Scan verse 614, and point out the noteworthy metrical features illustrated in it. c) Explain the derivation of alma.

d) Give the situation of Simoentis, Sidona, and Cyprum.

e) Explain the reference in Teucrum Finibus expulsum patriis.

f) If memini were changed to "dico," what would venire become?

g) Give the principal parts of expulsum.

Et pater Anchises: "Nimirum haec illa Charybdis;
Hos Helenus scopulos, haec saxa horrenda canebat.
Eripite, O socii, pariterque insurgite remis."
Haud minus ac iussi faciunt, primusque rudentem
Contorsit laevas proram Palinurus ad undas;
Laevam cuncta cohors remis ventisque petivit.
Tollimur in caelum curvato gurgite et idem
Subducta ad Manis imos desedimus unda.
Ter scopuli clamorem inter cava saxa dedere,

560

565

Ter spumam elisam et rorantia vidimus astra.-iii, 558-567.

a) Where were the Trojans when the foregoing incident took place, and what was Charybdis?

b) Who was Helenus, and where and under what circumstances was the warning here referred to given?

c) How came "cano" (see canebat) to be used in the sense of "praedico"?

d) What is the force of illa in this passage?

e) Give the principal parts of insurgite and contorsit.

f) What figure is used in Tollimur in caelum? Point out another example of the same figure.

g) Explain the derivation of rorantia.

IN E

FIFTEEN LIVES

3.

His demum exactis, perfecto munere divae,
Devenere locos laetos et amoena virecta
Fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas.
Largior hic campos aether et lumine vestit
Purpureo, solemque suum, sua sidera norunt.
Pars in gramineis exercent membra palaestris,
Contendunt ludo et fulva luctantur harena;
Pars pedibus plaudunt choreas et carmina dicunt.
Nec non Threicius longa cum veste sacerdos
Obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum,

Iamque eadem digitis, iam pectine pulsat eburno.-vi, 637–647.

640

a) Express perfecto munere divae by means of a clause introduced by "cum" express the same by means of a clause introduced by "ubi."

b) Comment on locos and norunt as to form.

c) Point out the noteworthy features of word order and sound illustrated in verse 641.

d) Explain the number of exercent, and point out another example in this passage of the same peculiarity.

e) Explain the reference in Threicius sacerdos.

f) Give the syntax of numeris.

g) Explain the derivation of eburno.

LATIN E

NEPOS-FIRST FIFTEEN LIVES