Latin Ib Exam 2024 2024 Testbank

what are Hecuba and her daughters compared to in line 516, and why is this significant? {Ans: doves in a dark storm cloud, representing their fright and woeful ending}what literary device is present in lines 745-746? {Ans: rhetorical question reflect's Aeneas' confusion}what is unique about the simile beginning in line 496? {Ans: it is an anti-simile, saying that Virgil cannot come up with words to describe the Greeks invading the palace}what is a summary of lines 526-32? {Ans: Priam's son Polites appears from down the hall, and is being chased by Pyrrhus. Wounded, Polites escapes Pyrrhus' grasp only to collapse in front of his parents and die.}what is a summary of lines 195-8? {Ans: The Greeks have believed the lie of Sinon and he is able to take down Troy when ships and soldiers couldn't}what is a summary of lines 783-789? {Ans: Creusa says that Aeneas will have a kingdom and royal wife and to leave her behind, as she will not be a Greek slave but rather a priestess of Cybele.}why is the reference to Tydides in line 197 significant? {Ans: Tydides/Diomedes almost killed Aeneas in Iliad 5 but her was saved