| A | B |
| Pyrrhus | qualis coluber in lucem... |
| Hecuba and the Trojan women | praecipites atra ceu tempestate columbae |
| Neoptolemus | another name for Pyrrhus |
| Pelides | patronymic (grandfather-nymic) for Pyrrhus |
| Hecuba's speech to Priam | Quae mens tam dira... |
| corpus exsangue Hectoreum | was given to Priam as an example of HUMAN/PIOUS behavior |
| Priam's speech to Pyrrhus | At tibi pro scelere...di persolvant gratis dignas |
| Pyrrhus' speech to Priam | degenerem Neoptolemum narrare memento; nunc morere |
| MALE numen AMICUM | litotes |
| ad terram MISERE aut ignibus aegra DEDERE | syncope for -erunt ending |
| Ceres | refugees met at her tomb |
| Cybele | goddess worshipped by Creusa |
| quem no incusavi amens hominumQUE deorumQUE? | polysyndeton |
| Creusa | natumque virumque fefellit |
| Phoenix, Ulysses, Trojan gold, garments, etc. | what Aeneas saw at Juno's temple |
| Creusa's speech to Aeneas | longa tibi exsilia...res laetae regnumque et regia coniunx parta tibi |
| divae Veneris nurus | mother-in-law-nymic of Creusa |
| Aeneas' speech to Creusa | non-existent |
| NOTA major imago | ablative of comparison |
| Creusa's ghost as it disappears | par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno |
| NOTA excedi REGIONE viarum | ablative of separation/place from which |
| superi regnator Olympi | Jupiter |
| Hesperia | "western land" aka Italy |
| words for ghost | umbra, imago, simulacrum |
| Lydius Thybris | river that flows through Rome |
| Lucifer | light-bringing morning star/planet? |
| Ida | mountain near Troy; Aeneas sets off in its direction |
| Danai | aka Dolopi et Myrmidones |
| matresque virosque, pubem, miserabile vulgus | group of refugees who will follow Aeneas from Troy |
| una salus victis | to hope for no salvation |
| Pergama | synecdoche for Troy |
| sine nomine corpus | Priam's ultimate fate |
| foedASTI | syncope for ******AVISTI |
| ara juxta veterrima laurus | where Hecuba and the women congregate |