Friday, October 25, 2024

25.01.25: Level 2; the passive voice [26]: the perfect passive [7]; the perfect passive: translation practice [5]

AENĒĀS IN ITALIAM VENIT

postquam Aenēās et sociī Karthāginem relīquērunt, ad Italiam pervēnērunt. multī Italiae incolae Troiānīs erant inimicī, quod aliēnī erant. sed Latīnus, rēx Laurentī, Troiānōs benignē accēperat. Lāvīnia, Latīnī fīlia, ā Turnō amāta est. Turnus erat rēx Rutulōrum. Turnus Aenēam timēbat quod Aenēās ā Latīnō benignē acceptus erat. Turnus sīc putābat: “sī pulchra Lāvinia ab Aenēā vīsa erit, et amāta erit, coniūnx Turnō nōn dabitur.” Itaque bellum miserum inter Aenēam et Turnum gestum est. multī hominēs utrimque interfectī sunt. tandem Turnus in proeliō cecidit. Lāvīnia ab Aenēā in mātrimōnium ducta est, et oppidum Lāvinium conditum est. ibi Aenēās paucōs annōs regnābat. posteā Aenēās ā Rutulīs occīsus est. tum Ascanius, Aenēae fīlius, rēgnābat. Ascanius Albam Longam, urbem clāram, condidit. Albae Longae gens Troiāna trecentōs annōs rēgnābat. tandem Rōmulus, fīlius Rhēae Silviae et Martis, Rōmam condidit. sīc gēns Rōmāna cōnstitūta est.

Find the Latin:

Lavinia was loved

Lavinia was loved by Turnus

Aeneas had been kindly received

Aeneas had been kindly received by Latinus

If Lavinia is seen [= will have been seen]

If Lavinia is loved [= will have been loved] by Aeneas

A war was waged

A war was waged between Aeneas and Turnus

Many men were killed

Many men were killed on both sides

(literally) Lavinia was led into marriage

The town of Lavinium was founded

Aeneas was killed

Aeneas was killed by the Rutuli

The Roman race was established

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