Quārta · Unit 3 · Lesson 3

Aeneid 1.19–33: tantae mōlis erat

Juno’s reasons: a prophecy against her Carthage, an old war, a beauty contest lost, and a Trojan boy taken up to heaven.

You will be able to

  • Read Aeneid 1.19–33
  • List the causes of Juno’s anger
  • Recognize a Greek accusative, a genitive of characteristic and the effect of spondees

New words

  • sanguis, sanguinis, m. blood; descent
  • arx, arcis, f. citadel
  • superbus, superba, superbum proud
  • aequor, aequoris, n. level surface; the sea
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