Quārta · Unit 5 · Lesson 2

Aeneid 4.320–330: parvulus Aenēās

What Dido has lost for him, enemies all round, and the child she wishes she had.

You will be able to

  • Read Aeneid 4.320–330
  • Recognize anastrophe and a mixed contrary-to-fact condition
  • Explain the pathos of the speech’s end

New words

  • hospes, hospitis, m. guest; host; stranger
  • coniūnx, coniugis, m./f. husband, wife
  • lūdō, lūdere, lūsī, lūsum to play
  • moror, morārī, morātus sum to delay, wait
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