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Nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem ?
Quippe vetor fatis. Pallasne exurere classem
Argivûm, atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto,
Unius ob noxam et furias Ajacis Oïlei?
Ipsa, Jovis rapidum jaculata e nubibus ignem,
Disjecitque rates, evertitque æquora ventis;
Illum, exspirantem transfixo pectore flammas,
Turbine corripuit, scopuloque infixit acuto.
Ast ego, quæ divom incedo regina, Jovisque
Et soror et conjunx, una cum gente tot annos
Bella gero.
Et quisquam numen Junonis adoret
Præterea, aut supplex aris imponat honorem ?
Talia flammato secum, dea, corde volutans,
Nimborum in patriam, loca feta furentibus austris,
Eoliam venit. Hic vasto rex Æolus antro

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Luctantis ventos tempestatesque sonoras
Imperio premit, ac vinclis et carcere frenat.
Illi indignantes, magno cum murmure montis,
Circum claustra fremunt: celsa sedet Æolus arce,
Sceptra tenens, mollitque animos, et temperat iras.
Ni faciat, maria ac terras cœlumque profundum
Quippe ferant rapidi secum, verrantque per auras.
Sed pater omnipotens speluncis abdidit atris,
Hoc metuens; molemque et montis insuper altos
Imposuit, regemque dedit, qui foedere certo
Et premere et laxas sciret dare jussus habenas.
Ad quem tum Juno supplex his vocibus usa est:
Eole, namque tibi divom pater, atque hominum rex,
Et mulcere dedit fluctus et tollere vento;
Gens inimica mihi Tyrrhenum navigat æquor,
Ilium in Italiam portans, victosque Penates:

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39. Pallasne. What does ne at the end of a word mean? In asking questions, in what part of a sentence does num stand, and what sort of answer is expected from nonne? 45. Parse infixit, tell the case it governs, and translate infixum est mihi. 51. Account for the case of loca. What is the signification of loci, the other form of the plural? 58. Why is faciat in the subj. mood? From what is cœlum derived? Decline it in both singular and plural. 59. What is understood by per auras, ad auras, and in auras? 61. What is the difference between metuens hoc and metuens id? 63. Why is sciret in the subj.? 67. What is the difference between gens, plebs, populus, and natio? 68. Give three adjectives derived from Ilium. Distinguish portare, ferre,gerere, gestare, and vehere. In what part of the Roman houses were the Penates worshipped.

Incute vim ventis, submersasque obrue puppes;
Aut age diversos, et disjice corpora ponto.
Sunt mihi bis septem præstanti corpore nymphæ,
Quarum, quæ formâ pulcherrima, Deïopeam
Connubio jungam stabili, propriamque dicabo;
Omnis ut tecum, meritis pro talibus, annos
Exigat, et pulchra faciat te prole parentem.

olus hæc contra: Tuus, o regina! quid optes
Explorare labor; mihi jussa capessere fas est.
Tu mihi, quodcumque hoc regni, tu sceptra Jovemque
Concilias: tu das epulis accumbere divom,
Nimborumque facis tempestatumque potentem.

Hæc ubi dicta, cavum, conversa cuspide, montem
Impulit in latus; ac venti, velut agmine facto,
Qua data porta, ruunt, et terras turbine perflant.
Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis

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Una Eurusque Notusque ruunt, creberque procellis 85 e
Africus, et vastos volvunt ad littora fluctus.
Insequitur clamorque virûm, stridorque rudentum.
Eripiunt subito nubes cœlumque, diemque,
Teucrorum ex oculis: ponto nox incubat atra.
Intonuere poli, et crebris micat ignibus æther;
Præsentemque viris intentant omnia mortem.
Extemplo Æneæ solvuntur frigore membra:
Ingemit, et, duplicis tendens ad sidera palmas,
Talia voce refert: O terque quaterque beati!
Quîs ante ora patrum Trojæ sub moenibus altis
Contigit oppetere! o Danaûm fortissime gentis,
Tydide! mene Iliacis occumbere campis

Non potuisse, tuaque animam hanc effundere dextra ?
Sævus ubi acidæ telo jacet Hector, ubi ingens

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73. Connubiɔ. Give the component parts of this word. What is the translation of ducere uxorem, and nubere viro? Dicabo. What is the difference between this verb and dico, xi, ictum, ere? 76. Distinguish optare, cupere, velle, expetere, and avere. 77. Is there any difference between fas est and licet? 79. Epulis. Enumerate the principal meals and feasts of the Romans, with the postures they assumed on these occasions. 83. Ruunt. Give the supines of the compounds of this verb. What compounds want the supine? 90. Intonuere. When is the shorter termination ēre in this tense more suitable, and when is the longer erunt preferred? 92. Give the original meaning and derivation of extemplo. 94. Terque quaterque. Give the derivation of both, and translate felix ter et amplius, quater tantum, and quater decies. 96. Oppetere. What is the difference between obire mortem or diem supremum and oppetere mortem ?

Sarpedon; ubi tot Simoïs correpta sub undis
Scuta virûm, galeasque, et fortia corpora, volvit.
Talia jactanti stridens aquilone procella
Velum adversa ferit, fluctusque ad sidera tollit:
Franguntur remi: tum prora avertit, et undis

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Hi summo in fluctu pendent: his unda dehiscens
Terram inter fluctus aperit: furit æstus arenis.
Tris Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet;
Saxa, vocant Itali mediis quæ in fluctibus Aras,
Dorsum immane mari summo. Tris Eurus ab alto
In brevia et syrtis urguet, miserabile visu!
Illiditque vadis, atque aggere cingit arena.
Unam, quæ Lycios fidumque vehebat Orontem,
Ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus
In puppim ferit: excutitur pronusque magister
Volvitur in caput: ast illam ter fluctus ibidem
Torquet agens circum, et rapidus vorat æquore vortex.
Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto;

Arma virûm, tabulæque, et Troïa gaza, per undas.
Jam validam Ilionei navem, jam fortis Achatæ,
Et qua vectus Abas, et qua grandævus Aletes,
Vicit hiems: laxis laterum compagibus omnes
Accipiunt inimicum imbrem, rimisque fatiscunt.
Interea, magno misceri murmure pontum,
Emissamque hiemem, sensit Neptunus, et imis
Stagna refusa vadis, graviter commotus; et, alto
Prospiciens, summa placidum caput extulit unda.
Disjectam Æneæ toto videt æquore classem;
Fluctibus oppressos Troas, cœlique ruina.
Nec latuere doli fratrem Junonis, et iræ.

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101. Parse volvit, and give the cases it governs. Translate volvere errorem, volvere filum, and volvere lapides in mare. 104. Parse franguntur, and conjugate with the prefixes con, de, dis, and sub; and translate frangere navem, frangere fores, and frangere fruges saxo. 105. Parse insequitur. Distinguish sequi, comitari. 107. Furit. What parts of this verb are awanting? 112. Illiditque. Give the root and meaning of the prefix il with kindred examples. 115. Magister. What was magister equitum? magister peditum ? magister morum? magister convivii? and ludi magister? 118. Apparent. Parse this verb, and distinguish it from appăro. 127. What governs unda? Give the construction. What does this word denote in the singular, and what in the plural? What cases follow in, per, and sub? 130. Parse latuere. Give both an inceptive and frequentative verb from it.

Eurum ad se Zephyrumque vocat; dehinc talia fatur:
Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri?
Jam cœlum terramque meo sine numine, Venti,
Miscere, et tantas audetis tollere moles?
Quos ego-sed motos præstat componere fluctus:
Post mihi non simili pœna commissa luetis.
Maturate fugam, regique hæc dicite vestro:
Non illi imperium pelagi, sævumque tridentem,
Sed mihi, sorte datum. Tenet ille immania saxa,
Vestras, Eure, domos: illa se jactet in aula
Eolus, et clauso ventorum carcere regnet.

Sic ait, et dicto citius tumida æquora placat;
Collectasque fugat nubes, solemque redueit.
Cymothoë, simul et Triton adnixus, acuto
Detrudunt navis scopulo: levat ipse tridenti;
Et vastas aperit syrtis, et temperat æquor;
Atque rotis summas levibus perlabitur undas.
Ac, veluti magno in populo quum sæpe coorta est
Seditio, sævitque animis ignobile volgus,

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Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem
Conspexere, silent, adrectisque auribus adstant;
Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet:

Sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, æquora postquam
Prospiciens genitor, cœloque invectus aperto,
Flectit equos, curruque volans dat lora secundo.

Defessi Æneadæ, quæ proxima, littora cursu
Contendunt petere, et Libyæ vertuntur ad oras.
Est in secessu longo locus: insula portum
Efficit objectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto
Frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos.

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131. Parse fatur. Distinguish it from loqui and dicere. 135. Why does Neptune abruptly break off after giving utterance to Quos ego? and what words may we naturally expect to follow? Express some similarity in componere with the verbs conferre and contendere. Distinguish fluctus, rivus, fluvius, amnis, and flumen. 139 To what does the word sorte allude here? 143. Distinguish fugo from fugio, and give derivatives from each. 145. Parse scopulo Give the construction, and distinguish scopulus, rupes, and saxum. 149. What is the gender of vulgus? Give a verb, two nouns, adjectives, and adverbs derived from it 152. Distinguish silere from tacere. Form an inceptive verb from it. 155. Give the derivation of genitor. Why is the title applied here? 156. Account for the case of secundo." Give its derivation. How does res secundæ mean prosperity? Arrange this sentence in natural order, and analyse it.

Hinc atque hinc vasta rupes, geminique minantur
In coelum scopuli, quorum sub vertice late
Equora tuta silent: tum silvis scena coruscis
Desuper, horrentique atrum nemus imminet umbra.
Fronte sub adversa scopulis pendentibus antrum:
Intus aquæ dulces, vivoque sedilia saxo:
Nympharum domus. Hic fessas non vincula navis
Ulla tenent; unco non adligat ancora morsu.
Huc septem Æneas collectis navibus omni
Ex numero subit; ac, magno telluris amore
Egressi, optata potiuntur Troës arena,
Et, sale tabentis, artus in littore ponunt.
Ac primum silici scintillam excudit Achates,
Suscepitque ignem foliis, atque arida circum
Nutrimenta dedit, rapuitque in fomite flammam.
Tum Cererem, corruptam undis, Cerealiaque arma,
Expediunt, fessi rerum; frugesque receptas
Et torrere parant flammis, et frangere saxo.

Æneas scopulum interea conscendit, et omnem
Prospectum late pelago petit; Anthea si quem
Jactatum vento videat, Phrygiasque biremis,
Aut Capyn, aut celsis in puppibus arma Caïci.
Navem in conspectu nullam; tris littore cervos
Prospicit errantis: hos tota armenta sequuntur
A tergo, et longum per vallis pascitur agmen.
Constitit hic, arcumque manu celeresque sagittas
Corripuit, fidus quæ tela gerebat Achates:
Ductoresque ipsos primum, capita alta ferentis
Cornibus arboreis, sternit; tum volgus; et omnem
Miscet agens telis nemora inter frondea turbam.
Nec prius absistit, quam septem ingentia victor

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162. Parse minantur. What connection is there between it and mineo, minæ ? Translate minari mortem alicui. 168. Give the derivation of vinculum. Distinguish from catena. 169. What adjectives besides ullus have similar terminations in the gen. and dat. sing.? 177. Why is Cererem translated corn? Give similar examples. 182. Why is videat subj.? 183. What parts of a ship were puppis, carina, velum, statumina, prora, alveus, sentina, gubernaculum, and malus? 185. Give the derivation of armentum. Translate armenta boum? 186. Give the root of agmen. Translate primum agmen, extremum or novissimum agmen, claudere agmen, and ire agmine. 191. Distinguish misceri and temperari. Give the construction of turbam telis. Distinguish tela, arma. Translate nubes telorum. Give derivatives from septem. Distinguish ingens, magnus, and amplus.

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