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Latin · Unit 54

Vergil: Clausula Cōnsecūtīva to Grammatica Varia

Vergil

Clausula Cōnsecūtīva; The subjunctive of characteristic; the predicate accusative (D'Ooge LXIX); Clausulae Condiciōnālēs; Grammatica Varia

32 lines

Vergil's words: ingemo, effigies, paciscor

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    Did he groan at my weeping? Did he turn his eyes?

    Numwhether
    flētū
    ingemuit
    nostrō?noster: our, ours
    Numwhether
    lūminalumen: light
    flexit?
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    and snatched the sacred figure, and with bloodied hands

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    “Where are you running, Aeneas? Do not walk out on the marriage you bargained for;

Vergil's words: fauces, invictus, cālīgo

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    I froze; my hair stood up, and my voice stuck in my throat.

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    sons of gods though they were, and unbeaten in their strength.

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    For three whole suns, in a blind fog,

Vergil's words: arripio, semel

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    Break off every delay and snatch the camp while it is in confusion.”

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    and it is not enough to have seen him once: they like to keep him,

Aeneid II. 438–439; Aeneid II. 469–470

Aeneid II. 620; Aeneid II. 687–690

Vergil's words: oppeto, concieo, scīlicet

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    of Troy, to meet their death! O bravest of the Danaan race,

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    He drops what he had begun and, driven by a monstrous anger,

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    “So she will see Sparta whole, and her fathers' Mycenae,

Vergil's words: prōrumpo, mulceo, alternus

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    So he speaks, and bursts into the middle of the packed enemy.

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    away, gentling him with words, and speaks so:

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    if we went at them every second man, we should barely have an enemy each.

Vergil's words: prōcurro, acuo

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    and dare to close hand to hand and to run out further.

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    of her feet on the ground, he armed her palms with a sharp javelin

Aeneid V. 463–465; Aeneid VI. 525–527

Aeneid VII. 30–34; Aeneid VIII. 385–386

Vergil's words: suscito, aerātus, sufficio

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    that answers; he himself rouses the gods against Dardanian arms.

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    No one would take it for bronze-clad lines massing

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    their burning eyes bloodshot and full of fire,

Vergil's words: rudens, strīdor, penētro

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    There follows the shouting of men and the shrieking of ropes.

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    At once Arruns heard the shriek of the shaft and the air

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    made his way through to the Idaean cities of Phrygia

Vergil's words: tropaeum, infectus

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    gathers the arms and carries them off on his shoulders, a trophy for you, king Gradivus.

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    in her joy, and singing what was done and what was not, alike:

Aeneid I. 87; Aeneid II. 192–194

Aeneid II. 617–618; Aeneid II. 780–784

Vergil's words: focus, circumsto, commūnis

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    to love their hearths and lift a citadel of roofs.

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    The souls stand thick about him on the right and on the left;

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    However things fall, there will be one danger held in common,

Vergil's words: ēminus, obsto, assiduus

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    Turnus comes at it and throws a whistling spear from a distance:

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    but portents of the gods stand in the way, with terrors of every kind.

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    These wage steady war with the Latin race;

Vergil's words: attingo, revolvo

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    to catch the high parapet by hand and reach his comrades' right hands.

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    back, I beg, to these wretched men, and grant that the Teucrians

Aeneid I. 88–89; Aeneid I. 325–329

Aeneid I. 389–392; Aeneid III. 132–134

The particulars

The course
Paine and Mainwaring, Prīmus Annus (Oxford, 1912) and Secundus Annus (1917); Appleton and Jones, Puer Rōmānus (1913); D'Ooge, Latin for Beginners (Boston, 1911); Ritchie, Fabulae Faciles (1903). Public domain. The teaching pages, the glosses and the narration are ours.
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