# Prīmus et Secundus Annus, Vergil: Interrogātiō Oblīqua to Subiūncta Clausula in Ōrātiōne Oblīquā

Vergil

Interrogātiō Oblīqua; Iterātiō (tempore praesentī); Subiūncta Clausula in Ōrātiōne Oblīquā

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## Vergil's words: conticesco, extendo, cumque

**1** Conticuēre omnēs, intentīque ōra tenēbant.  
They all fell silent, and held their faces turned to him, intent.

**2** Et dubitāmus adhūc virtūte extendere vīrēs,  
And do we still hang back from spreading our strength by worth,

**3** Quī tē cumque manent istō certāmine cāsus,  
Whatever chances wait for you in that contest,

## Vergil's words: Penātes, āerius, caelicola

**4** advectum Aenēān classī vīctōsque penātīs  
that Aeneas has been carried in with a fleet and is bringing his beaten household gods

**5** nec tū mē āeriā sōlam nunc sēde vidērēs  
and you would not be seeing me now alone in a seat of air,

**6** surgit, caelicolae medium quem ad līmina dūcunt.  
throne, and the dwellers in heaven lead him, in their midst, to the doorway.

## Vergil's words: ordior, loco

**7** ulterius temptāre vetō.” Sīc Iuppiter ōrsus;  
I forbid you to try further.” So Jupiter began;

**8** moenia prīma locō, fātīs ingressus inīquīs,  
I lay out my first walls, having entered on them under unkind fates,

## Aeneid I. 128–130; Aeneid I. 348–352

## Aeneid I. 753–755; Aeneid II. 1

## Vergil's words: nimius, decet, ēruo

**9** tantum īnfēlīcem nimium dīlēxit amīcum.”  
he only loved an unlucky friend too much.”

**10** Mortālin decuit violārī volnere dīvom,  
Was it fitting that a god be violated by a mortal wound,

**11** ēruam et aequa solō fūmantia culmina pōnam.  
I will tear up, and lay its smoking roofs level with the ground.

## Vergil's words: aēnus, cuspis, laetor

**12** lītore aēna locant aliī, flammāsque ministrant.  
others set bronze pots along the beach and tend the fires.

**13** Huic comitem Asbȳtēn coniectā cuspide mittit.  
He sends Asbytes after him for company with a thrown point,

**14** Pergama, nec veterum meminī laetorve malōrum.  
has been torn down, and I take no pleasure remembering the old evils.

## Vergil's words: rādix, pīnus

**15** dētulerat fīxam et lenta in rādīce tenēbat.  
down to this place and fixed it, and the tough root held it.

**16** quam sacrās dabitur pīnūs. Vōs īte solūtae,  
to burn before he is given my holy pines. You, go free,

## Aeneid I. 212–213; Aeneid I. 482

## Aeneid II. 596–597; Aeneid IV. 597–599

## Vergil's words: truncus, regnātor, āvulsus

**17** Trunca manū pīnus regit et vestīgia firmat;  
A lopped pine in his hand steers him and steadies his steps;

**18** rēgnātor, caelum ac terrās quī nūmine torquet;  
from bright Olympus, who turns sky and earth with his will;

**19** āvolsumque umerīs caput, et sine nōmine corpus.  
the head torn from the shoulders, and a body with no name.

## Vergil's words: viscus, coruscus, irruo

**20** Vīsceribus miserōrum et sanguine vēscitur ātrō.  
He feeds on the innards of wretched men and on black blood.

**21** Vix positum castrīs simulācrum, ārsēre coruscae  
Hardly was the image set down in camp when flame flickered

**22** mē referō: inruerant Danaī, et tēctum omne tenēbant.  
I take myself. The Danaans had broken in and held the whole house.

## Vergil's words: excidium, portendo

**23** ventūrum excidiō Libyae: sīc volvere Parcās.  
would come for Libya's ruin: so the Fates were spinning it.

**24** Nunc repetō haec generī portendere dēbita nostrō,  
Now I recall that she foretold these things as owed to our line,

## Aeneid I. 21–22; Aeneid II. 199–200

## Aeneid II. 756–757; Aeneid III. 184–185

## Vergil's words: hospitium, potis, ascio

**25** permittit patria? Hospitiō prohibēmur harēnae;  
allows this custom? We are kept from the welcome of the sand;

**26** Vōs animam hanc potius quōcumque absūmite lētō.”  
Do you rather use up this life of mine by whatever death you please.”

**27** Spem siquam adscītīs Aetōlum habuistis in armīs,  
If you had any hope in the Aetolian arms you called in,

## Vergil's words: glomero, exiguus, comminus

**28** sed glomerāre manum bellō et concurrere in arcem  
but the spirit burns to gather a company for the fight and run

**29** exiguam pretiō posuit, cui lītus arandum  
a paltry town for a price, to whom we gave a shore to plow

**30** Nōn cursū, saevīs certandum est comminus armīs.  
It is not to be settled by running, but hand to hand, with savage arms.

## Vergil's words: permitto, rogus

**31** permittit patria? Hospitiō prohibēmur harēnae;  
allows this custom? We are kept from the welcome of the sand;

**32** Dardaniīque rogum capitis permittere flammae.”  
and let the flame take the pyre of that Dardanian head.”

## Aeneid I. 539–540; Aeneid II. 266–267

## Aeneid II. 314–316; Aeneid II. 361–362