II.281-297


 * //Aeneid// II.281-297**



'O the light of Troy, o most faithful hope of the Trojans //lux: vocative//
 * 'o lux Dardaniae, spes o fidissima Teucrum,  **

what such great hindrances held (you)? from what shores //tenuere: tenuerunt (syncope)//
 * quae tantae tenuere morae? quibus Hector ab oris **

do you come, expected Hector? How gladly we, exhausted, look at you after many //expectate: vocative ppp//
 * exspectate venis? ut te post multa tuorum **

deaths of your (men), after various hardships and the city.
 * funera, post varios hominumque urbisque labores **

**285 defessi aspicimus! quae causa indigna serenos** Which unworthy reason defiled the //calm face - poetic plural?//

**foedavit vultus? aut cur haec vulnera cerno?'** //** Doesn't Aeneas know Hector is dead? **//
 * calm face? Or why do I see these wounds?' **

**ille nihil, nec me quaerentem vana moratur,** He (said) nothing, nor does he heed me asking vain (things),

**sed graviter gemitus imo de pectore ducens,** but gravely drawing out groans from the deepness of his heart,

**'heu fuge, nate dea, teque his' ait 'eripe flammis.** he says, 'Alas flee, born o a goddess, and snatch yourself from these flames. //nate: ppp, vocative// //dea: abl. of origin// //fuge: imperative//

**290 hostis habet muros; ruit alto a culmine Troia.** The enemy has the walls. Troy rushes from its tall peak. //Troy is crumbling down//

**sat patriae Priamoque datum (est a te): si Pergama dextra** Enough has been given by you to the homeland and to Priam. If Troy //patriae Priamo: dative// //Pergama: n. pl.//

**defendi possent, etiam hac defensa fuissent.** were able to be defended by your right hand, it also would have been defended by this (right hand). //defendi: present passive inf.// //Hector says he couldn't save Troy, so Aeneas can't//

**sacra suosque tibi commendat Troia penates;** Troy is entrusting the sacred (things) and its own household Gods to you;

**hos cape fatorum comites, his moenia quaere** Take these as comrades of the fates, search for great walls //cape,quaere: imperative//

**295 magna, pererrato statues quae denique ponto.'** for these, which (walls) you will establish at last, with the sea hving been wandered thoroughly.'

**sic ait et manibus vittas Vestamque potentem** Thus he says and he carries forth from the inner shrines the headbands and powerful Vesta

**aeternumque adytis effert penetralibus ignem.** and the eternal flame with his hands. //golden line: A (adj) B(noun) verb AB//