Quārta · Unit 7 · Lesson 3
Aeneid 12.919–938: Turnus begs
Aeneas’s spear strikes Turnus down. The Rutulian, on his knees, admits defeat, and asks to be returned to his father.
You will be able to
- Read Aeneid 12.919–938
- Recognize īnstar with the genitive, a deponent imperative and an appeal by comparison
- Weigh Turnus’s plea
New words
- saxum, saxī, n. rock, stone
- gemitus, gemitūs, m. groan
- odium, odiī, n. hatred
- cūnctor, cūnctārī, cūnctātus sum to hesitate, delay