Achivi cum per decem annos Troiam capere non possent
For how many years were the Achaeans unable to capture Troy ten two thirteen , Epeus monitu Minervae equum mirae magnitudinis ligneum fecit eoque sunt collecti Menelaus Ulixes Diomedes Thessander Sthenelus Acamas Thoas Machaon Neoptolemus; et in equo scripserunt Danai Minervae Dono Dant
What grammatical device is used in this phrase? ablative absolute double dative relative clause , castraque transtulerunt Tenedo. Id Troiani cum viderunt arbitrati sunt hostes abisse, Priamus equum in arcem Minervae duci imperavit, feriatque magno opere ut essent, edixit
What did Priam order? the horse led into Minerva's citadel the horse destroyed in Minvera's temple the horse to be left outside the city ; id vates Cassandra cum vociferaretur inesse hostes, fides ei habita non est. Quem in arcem cum statuissent et ipsi noctu lusu atque vino lassi obdormissent, Achivi ex equo aperto a Sinone exlerunt
How did the Achaeans get out of the wooden horse? They were never in it Sinon destroyed the horse, letting the Greeks out Sinon opened the horse and the Greeks withdrew et portarum custodes occiderunt
Who killed the guards of the gates? Sinon Achaeans Cassandra sociosque signo dato receperunt et Troia sunt potiti.