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55 Cards in this Set
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nec vox hominem sonat
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nor does your voice have a mortal sound
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bina
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two
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lato (crispans hastilia) ferro
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with broad iron head
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gerens (multiple meanings)
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bearing, wearing, having = zeugma
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Spartane vel qualis equos Threissa fatigat Harpalyce
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either of Sparta, or such a one as Harpalyce, the Thracian maid, when she tires her steed
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praevertitur
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outstrips
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nodoque sinus collecta fluentes
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and the flowing folds of her mantle gathered in a knot
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monstrate mearum vidistis si
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tell me, if you have seen
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contra sic filius orsus
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began to speak in reply
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quam te memorem, virgo
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by what name am I to call you, maiden?
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sis felix
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be gracious to us
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tandem
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pray
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locorumque erramus - what is special?
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hypermetric, elided in next line
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multa (tibi ante aras nostra cadet) hostia
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many a victim
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Haud equidem tali me dignor
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I confess I do not deem myself worthy of
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Punica regna vides, Tyrios
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you see a punic kingdom, tyrios = people from tyre
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ambages
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details
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primisque (iugarat) ominibus
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with first marriage rites
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magno miserae dilectus amore
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greatly loved by the unhappy (Dido)
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si prima repetens ab origine pergam
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if I should tell from the very beginning
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securus
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heedless
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forte paratae
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chanced to be ready
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celerare
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supply ei = her
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dux femina facti
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a woman was the leader
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mercati
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they bought land
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Quaerenti talibus
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in reply to such inquiries
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ante diem clauso componat Vesper Olympo
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before I finished, evening would close the day and shut heaven
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patriam et genus ab Iove summo
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the land of my ancestors and my kin sprung from sovereign Jove
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vix septem...supersunt
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seven barely survive (as opposed to barely seven survive)
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Nec plura querentem passa
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would allow him to utter no more complaints
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haud invisus - what figure of speech?
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not hateful - litotes
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auras vitales carpis
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you breathe the breath of life
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perge modo
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only go on
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vani - context?
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deceiving me
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Aspice bis senos laetantes agmine cycnos - what is going on?
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Venus tells the fortune of the ships based on movement of the birds
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aetheria plaga
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in a region of the sky
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lapsa
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swooping
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Iovis ales
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the eagle
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nunc terras ordine longo aut capere aut captas iam despectare videntur
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now they are seen in a long line either capturing the earth or looking down on their captured (companions)
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haud aliter
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in the same way = litotes
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vertice
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by the head
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incessu
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by her (divine) walk
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patuit
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she revealed herself
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circum...fudit - figure of speech?
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enveloped - tmesis
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sublimis
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through the high air
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corripuere viam
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they hasten on their way
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plurimus urbi imminet
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looms high over the town
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magalia quondam
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huts lately
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exercet
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busies
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homines feraene
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that is, whether or not the men were ferocious
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virginis os habitumque gerens, et virginis arma
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having the mouth, wearing the dress, bearing the arms
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nulla tuorum audita mihi - what is mihi?
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by me, i.e. dative of agent
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intactam
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her, when a maiden
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scelus, sceleris
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crime, misfortune
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imago - case?
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image, nominative
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