A | B |
cavum conversa cuspide montem | example of alliteration and chiasmus |
velut | introduces a simile |
incubuere | ex. of syncopated perfect |
Eurusque Notusque | polysyndeton |
Eurus | East wind |
Notus | South wind |
Africus | South-west wind |
fluctus | synonym for undae |
insequitur | ex. of deponent verb |
venti | winds |
procella | gust of wind |
litora | shores |
nubes | clouds |
caelum | sky |
pontus | another word for mare |
poli | another word for sky, heavens |
refert, fatur | synonyms for ait |
tendens | present participle _______ing |
O terque quaterque beati | beginning of Aeneas' speech to dead war heroes |
Danai | aka Greeks |
Tydide | aka Diomedes, Greek hero |
Iliaci, Teucri | aka Trojans |
Aeacidae | aka Achilles |
patronymic | name that comes from the father |
chiasmus | ABBA word order |
synchysis | ABAB word order |
aposiopesis | sudden interruption in a sentence |
apostrophe | addressing someone who is not there |
polysyndeton | repetition of "and" |
Simois | Trojan river |
anaphora | repetition of words at beginning of phrases |
ubi jacet Hector, ubi ingens Sarpedon, ubi tot Simois... | ex. of anaphora |
remi | oars |
latus | side |
aperit | opens |
Arae | "altars" (sandbars) |
Orontes | Lycian leader thrown overboard |
puppis | stern |
ellipsis | omission of word or words |
volvitur | ex of passive verb |
Ilioneus, Achates, Abas, Aletes | Trojans who survived war; faithful to Aeneas |
hiems | winter (storm) |
Neptunus | "graviter commotus", "genitor" |
Triton | "annixus" |
Aeneas | eius membra frigore solvuntur |
Hector | Aeacidae telo iacet |
Zephyrus | west wind |
tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri | ex of synchysis |
sensit Neptunus | begins indirect statement |
quos ego | precedes aposiopesis |
non simili poena | ex of litotes |
litotes | saying the negative of something |
dicto citius | ablative of comparison |
Cymothoe | sea nymph |
seditio | rebellion |
pietate | duty |
placat | another word for mulcet |
caeli ruina | ex. of hyperbole |