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Sic equidem ducebam animo, rebarque, futurum,
Tempora dinumerans; nec me mea cura fefellit.
Quas ego te terras et quanta per æquora vectum
Accipio! quantis jactatum, nate, periclis!
Quam metui, ne quid Libyæ tibi regna nocerent!
Ille autem: Tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago,
Sæpius occurrens, hæc limina tendere adegit:
Stant sale Tyrrheno classes. Da jungere dextram,
Da, genitor; teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro.
Sic memorans, largo fletu simul ora rigabat.

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695

Ter conatus ibi collo dare brachia circum:
Ter, frustra comprensa, manus effugit imago,
Par levibus ventis, volucrique simillima somno.
Interea videt Eneas in valle reducta

700

Seclusum nemus, et virgulta sonantia silvis,

Lethæumque, domos placidas qui prænatat, amnem.

705

Hunc circum innumeræ gentes, populique volabant;
Ac, veluti in pratis, ubi apes æstate serena
Floribus insidunt variis, et candida circum
Lilia funduntur, strepit omnis murmure campus.
Horrescit visu subito caussasque requirit
Inscius Æneas; quæ sint ea flumina porro,
Quive viri tanto complerint agmine ripas.

710

Tum pater Anchises: Animæ, quibus altera fato
Corpora debentur, Lethæi ad fluminis undam
Securos latices, et longa oblivia, potant.

Has equidem memorare tibi, atque ostendere coram,
Jampridem hanc prolem cupio enumerare meorum;
Quo magis Italia mecum lætere reperta.

O pater! anne aliquas ad cœlum hinc ire putandum est
Sublimes animas, iterumque in tarda reverti

715

720

691. Does nec ever stand before a vowel? If so, give examples. 692. What are respectively the antecedent pronouns to qui, qualis, quantus, and quot? 693. Give the sense and composition of Accipio. 697. Decline Tyrrheno sale. What part of the Mediterranean Sea was the Tuscan? 700. Supply the word to collo, and parse conatus, circumdare, comprensa, effugit, and simillima. 704. Parse and decline sonantia virgulta. For what is virgultum contracted? and from what derived? 709. Distinguish strepere, frendere, fremere, and stridere. Give the figure of speech in this line. 712. Give the construction of complerint ripas tanto agmine. 715. Distinguish potare, bibere, ebibere, and epotare. 718 Parse latere and reperta, and give synonymes to each. 719. How is the gerundive (participle in dus) construed?

Corpora? quæ lucis miseris tam dira cupido?
Dicam equidem, nec te suspensum, nate, tenebo,
Suscipit Anchises; atque ordine singula pandit.
Principio, coelum, ac terras, camposque liquentis,
Lucentemque globum Lunæ, Titaniaque astra,
Spiritus intus alit; totamque, infusa per artus,
Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Inde hominum pecudumque genus, vitæque volantum,
Et quæ marmoreo fert monstra sub æquore pontus.
Igneus est ollis vigor, et cœlestis origo,

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730

Seminibus; quantum non noxia corpora tardant,

Terrenique hebetant artus, moribundaque membra.

Hinc metuunt, cupiuntque; dolent, gaudentque; neque auras Dispiciunt, clausæ tenebris, et carcere cæco.

Quin et, supremo quum lumine vita reliquit,

735

Non tamen omne malum miseris, nec funditus omnes

Corporeæ excedunt pestes: penitusque necesse est
Multa diu concreta modis inolescere miris.
Ergo exercentur pœnis, veterumque malorum

Supplicia expendunt. Alia panduntur inanis,
Suspensæ, ad ventos: aliis sub gurgite vasto
Infectum eluitur scelus, aut exuritur igni:

740

Quisque suos, patimur, Manis: exinde per amplum
Mittimur Elysium, et pauci læta arva tenemus:
Donec longa dies, perfecto temporis orbe,
Concretam exemit labem, purumque reliquit
Ætherium sensum, atque auraï simplicis ignem.
Has omnis, ubi mille rotam volvêre per annos,
Lethæum ad fluvium deus evocat agmine magno;
Scilicet immemores supera ut convexa revisant
Rursus, et incipiant in corpora velle reverti.

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723. Give the grammatical figure in this line. 724. Describe the Pythagorean and Platonic system of philosophy. 725. What is understood by Titania astra? 729. Parse quæ monstra. What mood does qui govern when it introduces the ground of an assertion? What mood does it take after quippe, utpote ? 732. Parse and derive hebetant, moribunda. 733. Distinguish gaudere and lætari. 736. In what place after an introductory word of a clause are tamen, etiam, and igitur frequently found? 740. Analyse the sentence Alia panduntur igni. 743. Distinguish Manes, umbræ, lemures, larvæ, spectrum, and simulacra. 745-747. Parse aud derive perfecto, concretam, exemit, Etherium, and simplicis. 748. What is mille when it governs a genitive plural? What when joined to a noun? 750. Supply the words awanting after immemores,

Dixerat Anchises: natumque, unaque Sibyllam,
Conventus trahit in medios, turbamque sonantem;
Et tumulum capit, unde omnis longo ordine possit
Adversos legere, et venientum discere voltus.

Nunc age, Dardaniam prolem quæ deinde sequatur
Gloria, qui maneant Itala de gente nepotes,
Illustris animas, nostrumque in nomen ituras,
Expediam dictis, et te tua fata docebo.

Ille, vides, pura juvenis qui nititur hasta,
Proxima sorte tenet lucis loca; primus ad auras
Etherias Italo commixtus sanguine surget,
Silvius, Albanum nomen, tua postuma proles:
Quem tibi longævo serum Lavinia conjunx
Educet silvis, regem, regumque parentem:
Unde genus Longa nostrum dominabitur Alba.
Proximus ille Procas, Trojanæ gloria gentis,
Et Capys, et Numitor, et, qui te nomine reddet,
Silvius Æneas; pariter pietate vel armis
Egregius, si umquam regnandam acceperit Albam.
Qui juvenes quantas ostentant, adspice, vires!
At, qui umbrata gerunt civili tempora quercu,
Hi tibi Nomentum, et Gabios, urbemque Fidenam;
Hi Collatinas imponent montibus arces,

[Laude pudicitiæ celebres, addentque superbos]
Pometios, Castrumque Inui, Bolamque, Coramque.
Hæe tum nomina erunt; nunc sunt sine nomine terræ.
Quin et avo comitem sese Mavortius addet
Romulus; Assaraci quem sanguinis Ilia mater
Educet. Viden' ut geminæ stant vertice cristæ,
Et Pater ipse suo superûm jam signat honore?
En hujus, nate, auspiciis illa incluta Roma
Imperium terris, animos æquabit Olympo,
Septemque una sibi muro circumdabit arces,

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757. Mention the words and phrases with which qui takes the subjunctive mood. 760. Give the construction of nititur pura hasta. 762-766. Parse and give the composition of commixtus, proles, conjunx, longævo, and dominabitur. 769. Distinguish pietas, amicitia, amor, benevolentia, and caritas. 771. What was the highest military reward given to the Roman soldier? 773. What verb is understood to govern Nomentum? 778. Give the rule of construction for addet sese comitem avo. What grandsire is here referred to ? 780. Distin guish crista and juba. Translate tollere cristas; juba leonis.

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Felix prole virûm; qualis Berecyntia mater
Invehitur curru Phrygias turrita per urbis,
Læta deûm partu, centum complexa nepotes,
Omnis cœlicolas, omnis supera alta tenentis.

785

Huc geminas nunc flecte acies: hanc adspice gentem,
Romanosque tuos. Hic Cæsar, et omnis Iuli
Progenies, magnum cœli ventura sub axem.

790

Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti sæpius audis,
Augustus Cæsar, Divi genus: aurea condet
Sæcula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva
Saturno quondam; super et Garamantas et Indos
Proferet imperium: jacet extra sidera tellus,
Extra anni solisque vias, ubi colifer Atlas
Axem humero torquet, stellis ardentibus aptum.
Hujus in adventum jam nunc et Caspia regna
Responsis horrent divom, et Mæotia tellus,
Et septemgemini turbant trepida ostia Nili.
Nec vero Alcides tantum telluris obivit,
Fixerit æripedem cervam licet, aut Erymanthi
Pacârit nemora, et Lernam tremefecerit arcu:
Nec, qui pampineis victor juga flectit habenis,
Liber, agens celso Nysæ de vertice tigris.
Et dubitamus adhuc virtutem extendere factis ?
Aut metus Ausonia prohibet consistere terra?
Quis procul ille autem ramis insignis olivæ,
Sacra ferens? nosco crinis incanaque menta
Regis Romani, primus qui legibus urbem
Fundabit, Curibus parvis et paupere terra
Missus in imperium magnum. Cui deinde subibit,
Otia qui rumpet patriæ, residesque movebit,
Tullus, in arma viros, et jam desueta triumphis
Agmina. Quem juxta sequitur jactantior Ancus,

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785. Must quantus and qualis agree with the same substantive, expressed or understood, as the tantus talis in the other clause? What person is meant by Berecyntia mater? 786-791. Parse and derive curru, turrita partu, complexa, acies, adspice, and progenies. 793. In whose reign was the Golden age? 797. Why was the term colifer applied to Atlas? 799. What peoples are meant by Caspia regna? Give an inceptive verb from horreo. Of what conjugation are these verbs? 803: Why is Fixerit subj.? Parse and decline æripedem cervam. 804. Give the grammatical figure in this line. 809. To what did the olive boughs refer? 814. Distinguish otium, desidia, socordia, segnitia, segnities, inertia, and ignavia. Parse and derive resides and desueta.

Nunc quoque jam nimium gaudens popularibus auris.
Vis et Tarquinios reges, animamque superbam
Ultoris Bruti, fascisque videre receptos ?
Consulis imperium hic primus, sævasque securis,
Accipiet; natosque pater, nova bella moventis,
Ad pœnam pulchra pro libertate vocabit,
Infelix! Utcumque ferent ea facta minores,
Vincet amor patriæ, laudumque immensa cupido.
Quin Decios Drusosque procul, sævumque securi
Adspice Torquatum, et referentem signa Camillum.
Illæ autem, paribus quas fulgere cernis in armis,
Concordes animæ nunc, et dum nocte prementur,
Heu! quantum inter se bellum, si lumina vitæ
Attigerint, quantas acies stragemque ciebunt!
Aggeribus socer Alpinis atque arce Monoci
Descendens; gener adversis instructus Eoïs.
Ne, pueri, ne tanta animis assuescite bella;
Neu patriæ validas in viscera vertite vires:

820

825

830

Tuque prior, tu parce, genus qui ducis Olympo;
Projice tela manu, sanguis meus.

835

Ille triumphatâ Capitolia ad alta Corintho

Victor aget currum, cæsis insignis Achivis.
Eruet ille Argos, Agamemnoniasque Mycenas,
Ipsumque aciden, genus armipotentis Achilli;
Ultus avos Troja, templa et temerata Minervæ.

840

Quis te, magne Cato, tacitum, aut te, Cosse, relinquat ? Quis Gracchi genus, aut geminos, duo fulmina belli, Scipiadas, cladem Libyæ; parvoque potentem Fabricium; vel te sulco, Serrane, serentem? Quo fessum rapitis, Fabii ? tu Maximus ille es, Unus qui nobis cunctando restituis rem.

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817. What kind of verb is gaudens? Give a list of similar verbs. Decline popularibus auris. 819. Describe the fasces and securis of the Roman consuls. Distinguish fascis, fasces, fasciculus; securis, and bipennis. 820. Give the names of the sons of Brutus, and the reason why they were put to death. 826. Who was Torquatus? From what circumstance did he receive this surname? Distinguish signum from vexillum. 827. To what warriors does Ille animæ refer? 830. Derive strages. 831. Distinguish agger, collis, clivus, mons, jugum; arx, castrum, and castellum. 833. Give the construction of assuescite tanta bella animis. 836. Vary the expression meus sanguis. 837. To whom does Ille relate? Characterise the uses of hic, iste, and is. Give the construction of triumphata Corintho. 838. Parse casis and give its compounds. 841. Account for temerata being translated violated.

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