Aeneid I, Lines 34-45
How can you tell elisions
>word ends with vowel, next word starts with vowel >word ends in am, um, em, next word starts with vowel >word ends in a vowel of am, um, em, next work starts with "h"
What case and use is fatis
Ablative of means
Who is the ipsa with line 4
Athena
Illum expiranrem transfixo pectore flammas
But she caught him breathing fire pierced in his heart
What mood and use are exurere and submergere
Complementary infinitive
Quippe vector fatis.
Doubtless I am being prohibited by fate!
What is archaism
Figure of speech in which a phrase is considered old fashioned and outdated
Vix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum vela dabant laeti
Hardly out of view of the land of Sicily happy they were spreading the sails into the sea
What did Ajax do to have his actions called Noxam et furias
He desecrated her temple
Issa, Iovis rapidum iaculata e nubibus ignem
Hurling the rapid fire of Jove with her own hand from the clouds
How does a greater number of elisions affect the speed of the line
It speeds it up
Who is speaking these lines
Juno
Disiecitque rates evertitque aequora ventis
She scattered the boats and destroyed the seas with the winds
Why is the speaker so hurt and angry
She wasn't picked as the most beautiful goddess
What is the speaker afraid will happen if she's not allowed her vengeance
The Trojans will bring the household gods to Italy; reestablish civilization in Italy
Why would an epic poet especially use an archaism
To fulfill the definition of an epic poem with elevated language
Whose fleet does the speaker want to submerge
Trojans
Pallasne exurere classem Argivom atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto
Wasn't Athena able to destroy the Greek fleet and to submerge the men under the sea,
"Mene incepto desistere victam, nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem?"
What! Do I desist having been conquered and am not able to turn away the leader o the Trojans from Italy?
Turgine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto
With a hurricane and she impaled him on a sharp rock
et spumas salis aere ruebant, cums Iuno, aeternum servans sub pectore volnus, haec secum
and they were plowing the foaming brine with bronze when Juno, guarding her lasting wound cut under her heart said to herself,
unius ob noxam et furias Aiacis Oilei
because of the fury and madness of the one Ajax the son of Oileus?
What does the "r" on the vector tell you about the verb
passive
