Teacher's Guide for Vergil's Aeneid, 10 & 12: Pallas & Turnus

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by  Barbara Weiden Boyd

Barbara Weiden Boyd
VERGIL’S
AENEID
10 & 12
PALLAS & TURNUS
Teacher’s Guide

VERGIL’S
AENEID
10 & 12
PALLAS & TURNUS
Teacher’s Guide
Barbara Weiden Boyd
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
Wauconda, Illinois
General Editor
Laurie Haight Keenan
Contributing Editor
Gaby Huebner
Typography
Cameron Marshall
Vergil’s Aeneid 10 & 12: Pallus & Turnus
Teachers’Guide
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v
LITERALTRANSLATIONOFSELECTIONS
FROMVERGIL’SAENEID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
QUESTIONSFORDISCUSSION
ANDANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

INTRODUCTION
The contents of this supplementary volume are meant to serve as aids to
teachers and to students working independently on the Aeneid. The literal
translation is just that: I have attempted to reflect in English as much as pos-
sible the syntax and structure of Vergil’s Latin, and have studiously attempt-
ed not to obscure the difficulty of some of Vergil’s language. I have main-
tained the tenses of the verbs as they appear in Latin, although this may
sound ungainly to the reader not long familiar with this flexible feature of
literary Latin. When I have found it necessary to supplement the translation
with occasional words or phrases to clarify the sense of a given passage, I
have put the supplementary material in square brackets; parentheses are used
only where they appear in the printed Latin text as well.
The list of questions for discussion and analysis is meant to help teach-
ers and readers new to the passages covered in the companion volume by
encouraging thoughtfulness about the readings and provoking discussion. I
rarely consider one and only one answer to be the “right” one; rather, I
encourage all my readers to take these questions as a starting-point for open-
ended and, I hope, productive discussion. These questions are not by any
means the only ones that can be asked about the passages considered here,
and I encourage my readers to develop questions of their own to pose. The
texts under consideration ably demonstrate the inherent wealth of Vergil’s
creativity, capable of stirring anew emotion and thoughtfulness in each sub-
sequent generation. I am delighted to have the opportunity to make this
wealth more accessible to my readers.
Barbara Weiden Boyd
Bowdoin College

ALITERALTRANSLATION OF
Vergil’s Aeneid
(ASupplement to Pharr’s Aeneid)
Note: Words and phrases in square brackets are generally supplements to (or,
in a very few cases, subtractions from) the Latin text, intended in all cases
to clarify for the reader Vergil’s meaning. Parentheses are used only where
they appear in the Latin text (OCT), or where there would otherwise be dou-
ble brackets.
AENEID 10.420–509
10.420–38
Pallas aims for him [i.e., Halaesus], having prayed thus first: “Father
Tiber, grant now to this weapon, which I am balancing ready to throw, good
luck and a path through the breast of hard Halaesus. Your oak will receive
these arms and spoils of the man.” The god heard those words; while
Halaesus protected Imaon, the doomed man [i.e., Halaesus] offers his breast,
unprotected, to the Arcadian weapon.
But Lausus, a great part of the war, does not desert the ranks, terrified
by the [so] great slaughter of the man; first he slays Abas who opposed him,
the knot and stay of battle. Arcadia’s offspring is laid low, laid low are the
Etruscans, and you, O Trojans, your bodies [previously] unharmed by the
Greeks. The lines of battle clash, their leaders and strength well matched;
those in the rear pack the ranks, and the crowding does not allow hands and
weapons to move. Pallas presses and pushes on one side, on the other,
Lausus [presses] in opposition; nor is there much difference in age [between
them], outstanding [as they are] in beauty, but Fortune had denied them a
return to their homeland. The ruler of great Olympus did not permit them,
however, to clash with each other; their fates await them presently at the
hands of a greater enemy.
10.439–73
Meanwhile, his loving sister advises Turnus, who cuts the middle of the
battle line with fleet chariot, to come to Lausus’aid. As he saw his allies, [he
said]: “It is time to stop fighting; I am borne alone against Pallas, Pallas is
owed to me alone; I wish his father himself were present as spectator.” He