Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Reflection on lines 295-332

In these lines, we are in the Underworld. Aeneas sees the River Styx and Charon, the being who takes the souls across the river. the oracle tells Aeneas the function of the river, but also, the reason so many souls remain on the wrong side.
Vocab:
- caeno
- squalore
- umeris
- iuvenis
- gurgite
- invicti
- solio
- erebi
- iniquam
Grammar:
- caeno - abl. of specification
- vastaque voragine - abl. of specification or description
- terribili squalore - abl. of specification or description
- cui - dative of referece
- mento - abl. of place where
-nodo - abl. of means or manner
- 309-312 - a double simile
- cursum - acc. with transition
- 315- anaphora and asyndeton
329 - anastrophe

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