We're going into pretty grim stuff.... 

Book 10
486- 500
He seizes the hot spear from the wound in vain:
and by the same road alone the blood and the mind follow.
He fell on the wound (the arms gave a sound above)
and dying he seeks the hostile ground with a bloody mouth.
Turnus standing by addresses him above:
"Mindful Arcadians," he says "bring back these words of mine
to Evander: I send back Pallas, such as he deserved.
Whatever honor is in a tomb, whatever consolation there is in burying,
I bestow.  By no means litte will Aenean hospitality stand."
And having spoken such, he pressed with his left foot
the lifeless one seizing the huge weights of his baldric
and a crime pressed upon: under one matrimonial night
a band of young men was slaughtered horribly and bloody wedding chambers,
which Clonus of Eurytides had engraved with much gold; 
by which spoils Turnus now rejoices and takes pleasure having possessed it. 

HW
All of Book 12!
Actually groups will be teaching it to the rest of the class.

We started by reviewing in english, some of the story that we've already translated.

Then we continued with new latin:
457
When he believed that this man would be touched by a thrown spear, Pallas went first, if any chance should help the man who dared with unequal strength, and he said to great air: "Through father's hospitality and tables, which you apporach as a stranger, I entreat you, Alcides, to be present to the huge undertaking.  Let him percieve that I sieze the bloody weapons, from him half-dead and the dying eyes of Turnus endure the victor." Hercules repressed a great moan under his lowest heart and he pours out empty tears.  Then the father addresses the son with friendly words: "To each person, his own day stands, a short and irreparable time of life exists for all people; but to extend fame by deeds this is the work of courage.  Under the high walls of Troy so many sons of  gods fell, indeed Sarpedon, my offspring, along side them fell; now his own fates call Turnus and he reached a turning point of a given age."  Thus he spoke, and he turns away his eyes from the Rutulum fields. 

HW Latin IV- 474-481
AP HW-474-485

First we talked about Cats (which people should go see). Then we talked about the trip that some of the class went on yesterday. Then to latin: Last nights hw
Thus, whom Pallas attacks, having prayed first: "Give now, father Tiber, fortune to the iron which i balance, ready to throw, and grant a path through the chest of hearty Halaesus. Your oak will have these arms and the spoils of the man."  The god heard him; while Helaesus protected Imaon, he, unfortunate, gives the defenseless chest, to an Arcadian weapon. But Lausus did not allow the line of battle to be fightened by such great killing of the man, a huge part in the war: First he killed Abas, the opposing one, both a knot and a delay of the fight.  The Etruscans are strewn and you, Trojans, o bodies not destroyed by the Greeks. 
Moving on:
The battle lines run together with equal leaders and forces: The troops in the rear pack ranks together, the crowd does not allow weapons and hands to move. Here approaches and urges on, here Lauses opposes, age does not disagree much, distinguised in form, but to whom Fortune refuses to return to the fatherland. The ruler of great Olympus, having allowed them to run together, by no means among themselves, soon their own fates await them beneath a greater enemy. Meanwhile, the nurturing sister advises Turnus to approach Lausus (to help), who, wit a swift run, cuts the middle of the battle line. As he saw his comrades he said: "Time to stop fighting: I alone am carried into Pallas, to me alone Pallas is obliged; if I myself desired, I would desire the parent to be present as a viewer.

HW: 444-456 AP 52 for 4 

Much anticipation for the contracted week...

line 450-

Among these the Phoenician Dido was wandering fresh from her wound in the great woods; whom the Trojan first stood nearand recognzed an obsurity throught the shadows, such as who either sees or may think to have seen such a moon rising from the cloud of the first month, he lets tears fall and adressed with sweet love: "Unhappy Dido, therefore has the true message come to me that you had been destroyed by iron and you followed death?  Alas was I the cause of your death?  I swear by the stars, by the gods above and if there is any honor under the lowest land, unwilling, queen, I departed from your shores.  But  the orders of the gods which make me go through these shadows, which force me through a thorny location and deep night, they drove me by their own authority; I could not believe that this bringd such a great grief to you with my departure.  Stop your tracks and do not withdraw yourself from my sight.  Whom do you flee?  This is the last that I will adress to you with speech."  Aeneas with such words was soothing her burning and watching fierce and was stirring up the mind and tears.  She was holding her eyes fixed to the ground turned away and not moved more in her expression by the speech begun not more than if harsh flint or Marpesian cliffs stand.  At last she snatched herself and fled back unfriendly into the shady sacred grove, where her former spouse Sychaeus responds to her cares and matches her love.  Not less Aeneas shaken by the unjust misfortune follows with tears from a distance and pities the going one.

We split into groups by line numbers to find grammar questions to ask our classmates...

HW for Wednesday- 847-856 (IV), 847-859(AP)
for Thursday- worksheet; 1-7 in each section for IV, 1-10 for AP
   

We handed our homework in, which were lines 175-192.
We continued on in translating 192-211.

192-
Then the greatest hero recognizes the maternal birds and happy, he prays: "Be leaders, O,  if there were any road and guide a course through the breezes the grove were the rich branch shadows  the fertile ground. You heavenly mother do not be absent in our doubtful circumstances." Having spoken thus,  Aeneas presses the footprints watching what signs they bring, where they are proceeding to stretch. Feeding, they advanced so much by flying as eyes could keep track of the following ones.
201-
Thence when they came to the jaws of gravely smelling Avernus, they raise themselves swiftly through the liquid air having slipped, on chosen seats they sit above in a twin tree, from there the different colored aura of the gold gleamed through the branches. Just as mistletoe is accustomed to flourish with a new leaf in the wintry frost which its own tree does not produce, and with a yellow chute it surrounds the smooth trunks, such was the appearance of the golden leafing in the shady oak tree, thus the foil was wrestling in the gentle breeze. Immediately Aeneas seizes it and greedy he breaks off, resisting, and carries it under the roof of the prophetess Sibyll. 


(He found the key to the Underworld. It came off easily from the tree, and he is about to venture down into the Underworld. We will skip lines and begin again at Book Six, Line 450. He will come face to face with Dido.)

HW: 
450-460 LATIN IV
450-466 AP

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BOOK VI LINES 124-136
We began by reading the section in English.

Then Ms. Mathews took out the tissue box and quized us on grammar from last night's homework.

arasque: What is likely to happen? praying. Declension? first.
sate sanguine: What is the difference? sate is vocative, sanguine is ablative.
virtus: modified by ardens, "burning manliness"
averno: case? dative. What is it? it is a lake in Hades.
hoc...hic: what is the difference their forms? They have different forms, hic/masculine/labor, hoc/neuter/opus.
patet: What is the subject? Iunua.

NEW TERRITORY 
136: The golden branch lies hidden in a dark tree and in leaves and on a flexible twig, said to be sacred to infernal Juno. All the grove protects this (the branch), the shadows enclose with dark veils. 
140: But to go down under, is not granted thus, before anyone will pluck off the golden-leaved offspring.  
142: Beautiful Proserpina established that this gift be carried to herself; with the branch first torn off, another gold branch doesn't fail, and with similar metal a branch sprouts.
145: Therefore trace deeply with your eyes, and duly with your hand, snatch the found (branch), and for itself, willing will follow easily, if the Fates call you; and if the fates do not call you otherwise, and not with any strength you will not be to conquer and tear off with hard iron.
149: Moreover the body of a friend lies breathless to you, and it pollutes the whole fleet with death, while you seek decrees and you hang around in our threshold; first bring him back to his own seat, and burry him in a tomb. 
153: Lead out black livestock; let those be the first expiations (what you do to remove a sin or a wrong).
154: Thus alas, you will see the sacred groves of Styx and the kingdom pathless to the living." 
155: She said, and she became silent with her mouth closed.
 
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK
IV: 156-65
AP: 156-70

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We begin class by talking about the art project that is due tomorrow. Way to not be here Chris.

We then pick random people in the class to choose an underlined word in the passage from around 79 – 95 (book VI), and tell something about it. Aeneas and Betsy are also drawn out of the box.

We then start translating at 98-105:

The Cumaen Sybll with such things said from the inner most sanctuary she sings of horrifying mysteries and roars in the cave, wrapping up true things with obscure things: Apollo shakes the reigns to the raging women, and he turns goads under the chest. When fury first departed, and the frenzied mouths ceased, Aeneas undertakes the mighty warrior. Not any of these labors, o maiden , is a new appearance to me, nor rises unexpected; I have anticipated all of this, and I finished all of it before with myself in my mind.

we then go on:

106:

I pray one thing: Since the door of the infernal king is said to be here, and the gloomy swamp with Acheron pouring back, let it be permitted to go to the sight and the face of the beloved father; you might teach the way and you might open the sacred harbors. I seized him through the flames and a thousand following weapons, I recovered him on these shoulders and out of the middle of the enemy; He, having accompanied my journey, with me on all the seas, and he was enduring all the threats of the sea and the sky, feeble, beyond the strength and the lot of old age.

we take a break, at which magistra gets frustrated with our chatting in the hallway, and ushers us back in.

back to the translation:

line 115:

In truth, he was giving commands that I approach your thresholds praying in the same way, so that I, as a suppliant, seek you. Take pity on sons, and fathers, nourishing, pray, (and for you can do all things, nor uselessly set over with Hecates and the light of Avernus), if Orpheus is able to summon the souls of his wife, relying on his Thracian lyre, and with tuneful strings, if Pollux redeemed his brother with alternate death, and goes, and returns on the road so many times. Why should I recall Theseus, great Hercules? And my origin is from highest Juppiter.”

(ends 123)

HELLO WELCOME TO LATIN! We get our tests back today!

Book VI

Going over HW-

1-7 He speaks thus weeping, and he sends the rains freely into the ship and at last glides to the Euboean shores of Cumar. They turned their prows to the sea; then the anchor was establishing with a gripping tooth the ships and the curved sterns cloaked the shore. The band of burning youths dart out to the shore of Hesperia. A part seeks the hidden seeds of flame in veins of cliffs; part grabs the dense abodes of wild beats in the woods and points out the river having been found.

Continuing On:

Line 46 “The god look the god!” To her speaking such before the door suddenly there is no expression, not a single color, the hairs did not remain arranged; but the chest is gasping, and her wild hearts swell with rage, and bigger to be seen, and not sounding human, breathed upon by the closer divinity of the gods. “Do you delay in prayers and vows, Trojan Aeneas?” she said, “Do you delay? And indeed, you do not stop before the great mouths of the awestruck cave gave open.” And having said such things she was silent. A cold shudder ran through the harsh bones of the Trojans, and the king pours out cares from his chest: 56 “Apollo you who have pitied the heavy labors of Troy, you who directed the Trojan weapons and the hands of Paris into the body of Achilles, I have entered seas approaching great lands, with you the leader and deeply secluded Massylian races and the fields extending to the Syrtis: now finally we grasp the shores of fleeing Italy,

HW 4 62-20

AP 62-74  

HAVE A NICE DAY!