Aeneid Worksheet
I. 124-141
1. Neptunus (125) describes by an adjective phrase in line 126. What is this phrase? ______He is the subject of sensit which introduces three accusative subjects plus infinitives in indirect statement in lines 124-127. Supply the accusative subjects for each of these infinitives: ______+ miscere; ______+ ēmissam (esse); ______+ refūsa (esse).
2. prospiciens (127): Case? ______describes ______. What is the chiasmus in this line? ______How does it picture reality?
3. Disjectam (128) agrees with what noun? ______How does this word order illustrate the reality of the situation? This noun/adjective pair are the "a" elements in the chiasmus of this line. What noun/adjective pair form the "b"s? ______
4. Line 128 contains one direct object of videt, and all of line 129 is the other direct object. What noun is the simple direct object in I.129? ______Oppressos uses 2 ablatives as complements to complete its meaning. What are these two ablatives and what conjunction joins them? ______
abl. + abl.
5. What 2 nouns are the subject of latuēre (latuērunt)(130)? ______et ______What noun does Jūnōnis go with? ______
6. Tanta (132) describes which noun? ______What is the case, number and gender of this pair? ______The other adjective in the chiastic word order of this line is vestri. What noun does it go with? ______What is the case, number and gender of this pair? ______
7. Ventī (132): What case? ______
8. audētis (134): is completed by 2 complementary infinitives. What are they? ______The direct objects for the first one are in I.133. What is the direct object of the second infinitive? ______What adjective goes with this accusative? ______
9. What is aposiopesis? ______
10. Praestat (135) requires a complementary infinitive to complete it. What is the infinitive here? ______
11. The winds are going to have to atone for what they have committed (commissa) to whom? ______
12. What is the litotes in I.136? ______
13. Line 137 contains 2 parallel clauses. Both verbs are therefore in the same mood. What mood are maturate and dicite? ______
14. The colon at the end of I.137 introduces the indirect statement of the next 1 1/2 lines. Imperium and tridentem are the subject of the infinitive that has been omitted from I.138 as well as the infinitive, datum (esse), in I.139. What is the omitted infinitive in I.137? ______These 2 lines form an antithesis. The contrast is between illi and whom? ______
15. domos (140)are in apposition to what noun in I.139? ______
16. Jactet and regnet (140-141) are what mood? ______