Aeneid 2.291-297

Quid significat "si Pergama dextra defendi possent"?

• If Troy is able to be defended by your left hand.

• If Troy is able to be defended by your right hand.

• If you are dextrous enough to defend Troy.

Quid est "sacra suosque tibi commendat Troia penatis"?

• Troy entrusts her sacred things and household gods to the Greeks.

• Troy entrusts her sacred things and household gods to Hector.

• Troy entrusts her sacred things and household gods to Aeneas.

Quid significat "hos cape fatorum comites"?

• Take these comrades of the Fates.

• Take these comrades of the gods.

• Take these comrades of Troy.

Quid est "his moenia quaere magna"?

• Seek great walls with these.

• Seek great walls from these.

• Seek great walls for these.

'Quare' and 'Cape' are both verbs. What is their mood?

• indicative

• imperative

• subjunctive

Quid significat "pererrato ponto"? This is an ablative absolute - an ablative noun + an ablative participle.

• With the sea having been wandered

• With the sea wandering

Quid est "sic ait et manibus vittas Vestamque potentem (effert)"?

• Thus he speaks and brings out the headbands and powerful Vesta with his hands.

• Thus powerful Aeneas reaches out and takes the headbands and Vesta.

• Thus Hector hands the sacred objects to Aeneas.

Quid significat "aeternumque adytis penetralibus ignem"?

• and the eternal flame from the innermost shrines.

• and the innermost flame from the eternal shrines.

• and eternal tools and inner flames.

What literary device/figurative language do you see in this phrase

"aeternumque adytis penetralibus ignem"?

• chiasmus

• alliteration

• synchesis

• anaphora

Quomodo "moenia magna" in textu significantur?

• Ut urbs fortis

• Ut urbs pulchra

• Ut urbs antiqua

• Ut urbs nova