Virgil: The Aeneid Book II: Lines 10-20

First of all, to save confusion, I've decided to use my blog to aid my learning of Latin set text. Something has to work, and I've tried every technique possible. Maybe typing it will help....

Virgil Aeneid II

Lines 10-12 (beginning "sed si" ending "incepiam")
'sed si' But if you have so great a desire to learn our misfortunes and to hear briefly the final agony of Troy, although my spirit shudders to remember and has shrunk from the sorrow, I shall begin. 'incepiam'

Keywords -

• sed si - but if
• tantus - so great
  
• amor - desire
  
• congnoscere - to learn
• nostros casus - our misfortunes
• et audire breviter - and to hear briefly
• supremum laborem - final agony
• quamquam - although
• animus horret - my spirit shudders
• meminisse - remember
• refugit - shrunk
• luctuque - the sorrow
• incepiam - I shall begin

Lines 13-20 (beginning "fracti bello" ending "armato milite")

'fracti bello' Broken by war and driven back by fate, the leaders of the Greeks, now that so many years were slipping by, built with the divine skill of Pallas, a horse as huge as a mountain, and interwove the ribs with cut fir-wood; they pretended that it was an offering for their safe return; that was the story that spread. 'vagatur'
Having chosen selected warriors by lot, they hid them secretly in this, deep within, in its dark flanks and filled its vast hollows ans womb with armed soldiers. "armato milite"

Keywords -

-sentence 1

• fracti bello - Broken by war
• repulsi fatisque - driven back by fate
• ductores Danaum - the leaders of the Greeks
• iam tot annis - now that so many years
• labentibus - slipping by
• aedisicat ... divina arte Palladis - built with the dvine skill of Pallas
• instar montis equum - a horse as huge as a mountain
• sectaque intexunt abiete costas - interwove the ribs with cut fir-wood
• simulant - pretended
• votem - an offering
• reditu - safe return
• fama vagatur - the story that spread

-sentence 2

• sortiti - having chosen
• corpora virum - selected warriors by lot
• includent furtim - they hid them secretly
• caeco lateri - deep flanks
• ingentes cavernas - vast hollows
• uterum - womb
  
• armato milites - armed soldiers
  

Now you can't say I don't do my homework.....