Vergil: The genitive and ablative of quality (D'Ooge LXXVI) to Review of the gerund and gerundive, the infinitive, and the subjunctive (D'Ooge LXXIX)

Vergil's words: torus, requīro, vestīgo

1. 1
   effigiemque torō locat, haud ignāra futūrī.

   and an image, on the bed, knowing well what was coming.

   effigiemqueeffigies: image, likeness, effigy

   torōtorum: swelling, protuberance

   locat,loco: place, put, station

   haudnot, not at all, by no means

   ignāra

   futūrī.
2. 2
   arma āmēns fremit, arma torō tēctīsque requīrit;

   out of his mind he roars for arms, gropes for arms on the bed and in the house;

3. 3
   Ergō altē vestīgā oculīs, et rīte repertum

   So search high with your eyes, and when you have found it in due form,

Vergil's words: lībo, altāria, pulvis

1. 4
   Hoc pater Anchīsēs aurō lībābat ad ārās;

   With this gold father Anchises used to pour at the altars;

2. 5
   Hīc Hecuba et nātae nēquīquam altāria circum,

   Here Hecuba and her daughters, for nothing, around the altars,

3. 6
   Hīc subitam nigrō glomerārī pulvere nūbem

   Here the Teucrians look out and see a sudden cloud

Vergil's words: anguis, stīpo

1. 7
   Lernaeus turbā capitum circumstetit anguīs.

   the snake of Lerna, when it ringed you with its crowd of heads.

2. 8
   incessit magnā iuvenum stīpante catervā.

   with a great crowd of young men pressing around her.

Aeneid II. 386–390; Aeneid III. 169–171

Aeneid IV. 543–546; Aeneid IV. 691–692

Vergil's words: quoniam, reservo, vello

1. 9
   Hoc sōlum nōmen quoniam dē coniuge restat.

   since of a husband that one name is what remains.

2. 10
   Nam quid dissimulō, aut quae mē ad maiōra reservō?

   For why keep up the pretense? For what greater thing am I saving myself?

3. 11
   aspicerēs, pontem audēret quia vellere Cocles

   because Cocles dared to tear the bridge away

vellere

pluck, from vello

Vergil's words: inno, tardo, senecta

1. 12
   rūperat. Ille, innāre parāns, īnfantis amōre

   out of the clouds. He, getting ready to swim, is slowed

2. 13
   pulsa metū; sed enim gelidus tardante senectā

   been driven off by fear; but my blood is cold and dull

3. 14
   “Hunc ego tē, Euryāle, aspiciō? Tūne illa senectae

   “Is it you I am looking at, Euryalus? You, that late

Vergil's words: consequor, accelero

1. 15
   Cōnsequimur cūnctī et dēnsīs incurrimus armīs.

   We all follow, and run in at close quarters.

2. 16
   accelerat simul Aenēās, simul agmina Teucrum.

   Aeneas comes up at speed, and the columns of the Teucrians with him.

Aeneid II. 409; Aeneid III. 309–311

Aeneid IV. 324; Aeneid IV. 368

Vergil's words: vicis, bellātor, pharētra

1. 17
   succēdunt servantque vicēs: statiōne relictā

   come up and keep their turns; leaving the post,

2. 18
   bellātorque animō deus incīdit.

   and the warrior god has fallen on their spirit.

3. 19
   pars lēvīs umerō pharetrās; it pectore summō

   some have smooth quivers at the shoulder; high on the breast

Vergil's words: cervix, secūris, postis

1. 20
   “Ergō age, cāre pater, cervīcī impōnere nostrae;

   “Come then, dear father, be lifted onto my neck.

2. 21
   captīvī pendent currūs curvaeque secūrēs

   captured chariots hanging there, and curved axes,

3. 22
   tēctōrum inter sē Priamī, postēsque relictī

   that joined Priam's buildings to one another, and a back gate

Vergil's words: pinguis, quārē

1. 23
   aut ante ōra deum pinguīs spatiātur ad ārās,

   or paces before the faces of the gods at the rich altars,

2. 24
   Quārē agite, Ō tēctīs, iuvenēs, succēdite nostrīs.

   So come, young men, come in under our roof.

Aeneid I. 627; Aeneid II. 707

Aeneid V. 380–384; Aeneid VI. 331–332