Prince Perseus Power
Exercises
Advanced Level
Vergil's Aeneid
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Note:
There are many different ways to go back to web pages you have
viewed using various browser menus and buttons. One method is
suggested in this exercise but please use the method with which
you are most comfortable.
1. Go to the Perseus web site,
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu.
2. Click on the "Texts"
button on the home page.
3. Click on the "Latin
Texts and English translations" icon.
How many Latin authors are there?
______________
4. Click on "Vergil"
in the list of authors.
How many entries are there?
______________
5. Click on the Aeneid
in "Latin."
6. Click on "Book 1."
You should now see the first 7 lines of the Latin text.
7. Click on the first word,
"arma." This should open a new window: "Morphological
Analysis." At the top left of this window, you can find
out the grammatical information about this word. You may need
to enlarge this window.
What are the possible cases
and numbers for this word? ___
8. Now click on "L&S"
(Lewis and Short Dictionary) next to "Entry in." This
should open up yet another window, which provides the dictionary
definitions as well as numerous references (i.e., places in Latin
literature where this word appears).
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N.B.
the author who is being searched (Vergil in this instance is
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How many times does "arma"
appear up in texts by Vergil?
How many times does it appear elsewhere in Perseus?
How many references to Vergil are contained in the definition?
What text, book and line contains this particular use of "arma"?
What other work of Vergil's is cited as an example of this word?
9. Return to the Latin text.
You may have to close some windows.
10. Click on "Troiae"
in line 1. Click on the window for morph. anal.
What are the possible cases
and numbers for this word?
How many times does this word appear in Vergil?
11. Return to the Latin text.
12. Click on "Laviniaque"
in line 2.
How many times does this word
appear in Vergil? _______
13. Click on "Latin Word
Search."
What information does this give
you? ________________
In what four (4) other text does this word appear? ________
Does it appear more frequently in the first or second half of
the poem? _______________________
What might this tell you about the importance of the word?
14. Now go back to the Latin
text and click on "Connington," second line to the
right of the text.
What does this commentator tell
you about "fato?" ________
What word does Connington suggest it goes with? _______
What is the other possibility? __________________
15. Go back to the text and
click on "Servius," the ancient Roman commentator,
next to line 3. The top half of the window that appears is Connington's
commentary, the 2nd half is Servius' commentary.
Do you see any difficulty with
using Servius' commentary?
16. Go back to the Latin text
and click on "Iunonis" (line 4).
How many times does her name
appear in the Vergil? _____
How many times in Book 1 of the Aeneid? ___________
17. Go back to the Latin text.
18. Go to "Version"
at the top of the page. Select "William's translation"
from the menu and click the "Change now" button.
19. Read the first few lines
of the translation.
What do you think? _______________________________
Is it close to how we translated this in class? ____________
20. Now go back to "Version"
at the top of the page, select "Dryden's translation"
from the menu and click the "Change now" button.
Is this translation better or
worse? ____________________
