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 |