T. Ante leues ergo pascentur in aethere cerui
et freta destituent nudos in litore piscis, 60
ante pererratis amborum finibus exsul
aut Ararim Parthus bibet aut Germania Tigrim,
quam nostro illius labatur pectore uultus.
M. At nos hinc alii sitientis ibimus Afros,
pars Scythiam et rapidum cretae ueniemus Oaxen  65
et penitus toto diuisos orbe Britannos.
en umquam patrios longo post tempore finis
pauperis et tuguri congestum caespite culmen,
post aliquot, mea regna, uidens mirabor aristas?

Match subjects with their objects:
  1. cervi
  2. freta
  3. exsul
  4. Parthus
  5. vultus
  6. nos
  7. pars
  8. (ego) videns
  1. veniemus
  2. mirabor
  3. ibimus
  4. bibet
  5. labatur
  6. pascentur
  7. destituent

Find the following:
  1. a 3rd person plural future
  2. a 3rd person singular future
  3. a 1st person plural future
  4. another 1st person plural future
  5. a 1st person singular future
  6. a 3rd person singular present subjunctive
  7. an ablative absolute

Is the third foot of each line a dactyl or a spondee:

  1. 59
  2. 60
  3. 61
  4. 62
  5. 63
  6. 64
  7. 65
  8. 66
  9. 67
  10. 68
  11. 69

Answer the following in English:

  1. Based on this poem, what do you think the economic interactions of these people consist of? How do you think they get food, shelter, clothing?
  2. Given who Virgil is, what experience do you think he has of the lives of actual shepherds and farmers, etc.?

Ancient Comment (from Maurus Servius Honoratus' Commentary on the Poems of Virgil.