Monday, December 10, 2012

Reflection on lines 259-286

In these lines, Mercury appears before Aeneas and tells him to leave Carthage and get back to his journey. The visit is short and harsh, and it leaves Aeneas speechless; nevertheless, he does follow through with orders and prepare to leave his wife and her city.
Vocab:
- ardebat
- umeris
- munera
- oblite
- tali
- fuga
- tellus
- heu
- ardet
Grammar:
- oblite - vocative of the participle
- regni rerumque - gen. with a verb of forgetting
- Ili - either possessive gen. or objective gen.
fuga - abl. ofmanner
- agat, audeat, sumat - deliberate subjunctives

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