Monday, January 7, 2013

Reflection on lines 384-425

In these lines, Aeneas and Sibyl try to cross the river Styx, but Charon is unhappy with them, and does not want to bring living souls across. When Sibyl, however, shows him the golden bough, he agrees to bring them across. The pair drugs Cerberus, the three-headed dog, and continues in through hell.
Vocab:
- adegreditur
- istinc
- soporae
- thalamo
- adorti
- exsangues
- imas
- limen
- corda
- glaucaque
- puppim
- frugibus
- sepulto
- inremeabilis
Grammar:
- 385- indirect statement
- ripae - dat. of direction
- 388 - anastrophe
- 392 - litote
- lacu - abl. Of place
- 394 - concessive clause
- ille.... Hi - the former.... The latter
- agnoscas - subjunctive use for polite command
- 408 - abl of comparison
- alveo - synizesis
- 415 - anastrophe
- 419 - indirect statement
- fame rabida - abl. Of cause of description
- 424 - abl. Absolute

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