Haec dum Dardanio Aeneae miranda videntur, While these

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Transcript Haec dum Dardanio Aeneae miranda videntur, While these

Tum breviter Dido, vultum demissa, profatur:
then Dido, having turned down/lowered her face, speaks out:
“Solvite corde metum, Teucri, secludite curas.
“release fear from your heart, Trojans, shut off your cares.
Res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt
the harsh situation and newness of (my) rule compel me
moliri, et late fines custode tueri.
To build such things, and to protect the boundaries far and wide with a guard.
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Quis genus Aeneadum, quis Troiae nesciat urbem,
who (does not know) the people of Aeneas, who does not know the city of
Troy,
virtutesque virosque, aut tanti incendia belli?
Both the valor and the men, or the burnings of such a war?
Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Poeni,
we Phoenicians don’t bear our weakened hearts to such an extent,
nec tam aversus equos Tyria Sol iungit ab urbe.
Nor does the sun yoke (his) horses so far from the Tyrian city.
Seu vos Hesperiam magnam Saturniaque arva,
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sive Erycis finis regemque optatis Acesten,
auxilio tutos dimittam, opibusque iuvabo.
Voltis et his mecum pariter considere regnis;
urbem quam statuo vestra est, subducite navis;
Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.
Atque utinam rex ipse Noto compulsus eodem
adforet Aeneas! Equidem per litora certos
dimittam et Libyae lustrare extrema iubebo,
si quibus eiectus silvis aut urbibus errat.”
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Questions
1. How is dum translated (494-495)?
2. What case is Aeneae (494)?
3. What case is forma (496)?
4. What type of ablative construction is in line 497?
5. What poetic device does qualis introduce (498)?
6. What is the antecedent of quam (499)?
7. What does secutae modify (500)?
8. 8. Who/what is illa (500)?
9. What is the subject of pertemptant (502)?
Questions
10. Who/what does saepta describe (506)?
11. Who/what is the subject of aequabat (508)?
12. Why is accidere an infinitive(509)?
13. Who/what is the antecedent of quos (511)?
14. Who is ipse (513)?
15. Who/what does avidi describe (514)?
16. Why are linquant and veniant in the subjunctive (517, 518)?
17. Who/what does lecti describe?