Oxford Latin Course: Part 1 Chapter 9 Translations and Answers

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1 The boy snatches the girl's dinner. 2 The girl snatches the boy's satchel. 3 The mother looks the girls' pictures. 4 The mother looks at the boys' tablets. 5 The son goes into his father's field. 6 The boy is carrying the dogs' dinners.

Exercise 9.2

1 fortiter. Fight bravely, friends, and take the city. 2 hūc; diū. Come here, Quintus; your father has been (is) waiting for you for a long time. 3 dīligehter. Work hard, boys; the master is watching us. 4 male. Decimus write his letters badly; he is an ass. 5 lentē; cūr. Why are you walking slowly, Quintus? Why don't you hurry?

Exercise 9.4

1 fēmina prope portās urbis manet. 2 fīlius patris equum ad agrum dūcit. 3 puerī magistri īram timent. 4 prōrās nāvium nōn possumus vidēre. 5 fābulam fēminae audīre cupimus. 6 potesne vidēre pueliae mātrem?

Exercise 9.1

1 mātris. The girl listens happily to her mother's story. 2 puerōrum. The master looks at the boys' tablets (the tablets of the boys). 3 patris. Quintus runs quickly to his father's field (the field of his father). 4 fēminārum. The farmer cannot hear the shouts of the women (the women's shouts). 5 principum. Many of the princes want to flee into the city. 6 Trōiānōrum. Few of the Trojans are fighting bravely. 7 urbis. Hector flees three times round the walls of the city. 8 Hectoris. All the Trojans mourn Hector's death (the death of Hector).

Exercise 9.3

1 to take 2 we take 3 take! (s.) 4 you take (s.) 5 I take 6 go away! (pl.) 7 they go away 8 to go away 9 you (p/.) go away 10 go away! (s.) 11 conquer! (pl.) 12 I conquer 13 to conquer 14 you (s.) conquer 15 they conquer

Aeneas escapes from Troy

Few of the Trojans escape; they leave the burning city and flee into the mountains. Amongst them is Aeneas, a Trojan prince; he snatches his father and his wife and his small son from the flames and leads them to the mountains. Soon others come together to the mountains. All despair, but Aeneas says, 'Troy is burnt, but we Trojans survive. Come with me. We must found a new Troy in another land.' They listen to Aeneas joyfully. They leave the mountains and descend to the shore; they board ships and soon they are sailing away from the city of Troy to unknown lands. For long they wander on the waves and undergo many sufferings. At last they come to Italy and found a city.

The fall of Troy

For ten years the Greeks besiege Troy but cannot capture the city. At last Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, despairs. He orders all the princes to assemble and says, 'For ten years now we have been besieging Troy; we often conquer the Trojans in battle but we cannot take the city. I despair. What should we do? Should we return home? What do you advise?' The other princes are silent but Odysseus says, 'I don't despair. I have a new plan. Listen to me.' All the princes listen intently to Odysseus' plan; they accept his plan joyfully. They make a wooden horse, huge; they send many brave men into it. These climb into the horse and hide themselves in the belly of the horse. The rest board their ships and sail to a neighboring island. At first light the Trojans see the ships of the Greeks going away; they rejoice because the Greeks are not there, they rejoice because fighting is at last finished. They run from the gates of the city to the deserted shore; they look at the huge horse standing on the shore. Some say, 'We must lead the horse into the city.' Others say, 'Don't trust the horse. We fear the gifts of the Greeks. Perhaps some Greeks are hidden in it.' At last they decide to lead the horse into the city. All joyfully drag it through the gates and place it in the citadel. Then they hold a feast and drink much wine. Night is come. The Trojans are sleeping. The Greeks who are in the island board their ships and quickly return to the city of Troy. Those who are hidden in the horse silently go out (of it) and hurry to the gates. The watchmen of the Trojans are sleeping; they are drunk. The Greeks kill them; they quickly open the gates and receive their comrades. They all run into the streets of the city. Few of' the Trojans resist. Soon the Greeks capture the whole city. At last they attack the palace of Priam; they kill Priam and his sons. Few escape. So at last the Greeks take Troy and destroy the city.