WorksheetsBook VI 2025
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 41mins
Where does Book 6 take place?
Carthage
Rome
Underworld
Bay of Naples
Troy
Dido errabat silva in magna - where is Dido?
shore
forest
great tomb
palace
To what is Dido compared when Aeneas sees her?
rose
shining light of the sun
stars
moon
aut videt, aut vidisse putat
"Aeneas sees her or thinks he has seen her"
"Aeneas does not her or rather thinks he has seen her"
"Aeneas saw her or thinks he will see her"
"Aeneas sees her or thinks he would have seen her"
invitus, regina, tuo de litore cessi. (460)
having been invited
unwillingly
willingly
I invited (you)
et torva tuentem: Dido looks at him fiercely. Figure of speech?
hendiadys
simile
hyperbaton
alliteration
synecdoche
quam si dura silex : SIMILE. "Hard....."
wood
cheese
marble
flint
"Aeneas, casu percussus iniquo..." What happens to Aeneas?
struck by her unfair look
struck by her unjust doom
struck by her fateful weapon
struck against her unequal fate
Dido's first husband was
Sisyphus
Sychaeus
Silenus
Silvanus
Synecdoche
refugit in nemus umbriferum: where does Dido retreat to?
gingerbread house
wooded landscape
sunlit upland
shaded grove
umbrageous lake
iuxta
next to
justice
just
Quem fugis?
Whom are you fleeing?
I am fleeing you
she flees him
casus, -us m.
case
misfortune, outcome
cause
dulcis, dulcis, dulce
duke
dark
sweet
gradus, gradus m.
grade
step
guard
as
morem
vultus
ut
erunt
spare!
erunt
spiranti
parcere!
dicent
custom
morem
legum
spoliīs
turbat
softer
marmore
mollius
radio
morem
remember!
debellare
parcere
marmore
memento
of laws
radio
spollīs
legum
mollius
they will hammer out
parcere
sternet
parcere
excudent
they will be
erunt
legum
radio
sistet
famous
legum
marmore
cursus
clarus
hae tibi erunt artes
dative of possession
ablative absolute
supine
indirect command
What tense and mood is 'fuissent'?
imperfect, indicative
pluperfect, indicative
imperfect, subjunctive
pluperfect, subjunctive
Charon
ferryman of the underworld
Sybil
Aeneas' guide
Anchises
Aeneas' father
Cerberus
guardian of the underworld
Tisiphone
one of the furies
Aeneas goes to the Sybil's temple
Aeneas finds the golden bough
Aeneas and the Sybil meet Charon
Aeneas sees Dido
Anchises shows Aeneas the future Romans
What literary device is the line pattern ABBA? (e.g. ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country)
metonomy
metaphor
chiasmus
tmesis
What characters from mythology journeyed to the underworld (more than one)?
Theseus and Pirithous
Hercules
Aeneas
Patroclus
Match the following with the reason they went to the underworld
Hercules
to kidnap Cerberus
Theseus and Pirithous
to kidnap Proserpina
Aeneas
to see his father
Orpheus
to find his dead wife
