Aeneid Worksheet

I. 102-123

1. Talia (102) is the direct object of what participle? ______________ Who is being described by this participle? _____________

2. procella (101-2) What two words describes this noun? __________ ___________

3. There is a chiasmus in this line with the two participles and their complements (a verbal complement refers to the word(s) which complete the verb phrase, such as direct objects, ablatives of means, ablatives of place where or to which or in which. Locate the chiasmus in line 101: _________ _________ _________ __________

4. What two verbs is procella (101-2) the subject of? __________ ____________

5. latus (105) case, number and gender? __________ __________ __________ It is the direct object of what verb? ___________

6. cumulō (105) goes with or complements what adjective? ____________

7. hīs (107) is a dative of reference. These datives tell us who was affected by the activity of the verb. The quīs (quibus) of line 95 used with contigit is another variation of this phenomenon. There is an anaphora here of what two words? ____ ______ Also a tricola of what three verbs? ____________ _____________ ___________

8. Tris (108) begins another anaphora interrupted by some parenthetical remarks identifying further the particular rocks. What two subjects are joined by the anaphora of trīs? __________ ___________

9. In line 109 Ārās is a predicate accusative, i.e. it describes a noun which is the direct object of the verb, here vocant. What noun does Ārās describe? _________ Quae introduces a relative clause which also describes this same noun. What case, number and gender is quae? _______ _______ _______

10. Ūnam (113): is the direct object of what verb in line 115? ____________ What word was omitted after ūnam? ____________

11. quae Lyciōs fīdemque vehebat Orontēn (113): What noun does this relative clause describe? ___________ What is the subject of this clause? ___________

12. ipsius ante oculōs ingēns ā vertice pontus (114): This entire line is a complex noun phrase which is the subject of ferit (115). What one word is the simple noun which is the simple subject? ___________ What adjective describes this noun? ___________ What are the 2 prepositional phrases which add more information? _________________ __________________

13. ipsius (114): What case? ___________ What noun does it go with? _____________

14.-que (115): joins excutitur to what other verb? _____________ Magister is really the subject of both.

15. Illam (116) directs our attention away from the magister and back to the ship. What verb is it the direct object of? _____________ What is the subject of this verb? __________ agens (117) is still part of this clause which ends with circum. Which noun does agens describe? __________________

16. nantēs (118): these people are the first of the 4 subjects of apparent. Line 119 contains the other 3. What are they ________ __________ ______________

17. In lines 120-21 four boats are the victims (=direct objects) of the hiems. In line 120 we learn whose boats they were. What 2 genitives tell us whose boats they were? __________ __________. For variety in line 121 Vergil omits the word navem altogether and tells us who were carried in the other two boats. He also omits 2 verb forms. What are these 2 verb forms? ___________ ___________________

18. omnes (122): Case, number and gender? _________ _________ _________ What omitted noun does it describe? _____________ What 2 verbs is it the subject of? __________ and _____________

19. laxīs laterum compāgibus (123) is a noun phrase in the ablative, but laterum is __________ case and depends upon the noun ____________.