Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 Assessment Schedule

NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 1 of 14

Assessment Schedule – 2011

Latin: Translate and analyse familiar literary Latin passage(s) from Virgil (90508) Evidence Statement

PASSAGE ONE: Part A – Translation Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence 9 (of 21) sections correctly 15 (of 21) sections correctly 18 (of 21) sections correctly translated. translated. translated.

Latin Text Sample Translation postquam ventum After they came in altos montes to the high mountains atque invia lustra, and the trackless mountain-lairs, ecce ferae caprae behold! wild goats decurrere iugis ran down from the ridges deiectae vertice saxi; dislodged from a crag’s pinnacle; de alia parte from another direction cervi transmittunt deer cross patentes campos cursu the open plains at a run atque glomerant and they gather pulverulenta agmina fuga their dusty herds in flight, -que relinquunt montes. and leave the mountains behind. at puer Ascanius But the boy Ascanius in mediis vallibus in the middle of the valley gaudet acri equo rejoices in his spirited horse, -que praeterit iam hos and he passes now these cursu, iam illos, at a gallop, now those, -que optat inter inertia pecora and he wishes that among the tame herds spumantem aprum dari votis, a foaming boar may be given [in answer] to his prayers, aut fulvum leonem or that a tawny lion descendere monte. should descend from the mountain. NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 2 of 14

PASSAGE ONE: Part B – Analysis Achievement Achievement with Q Evidence Achievement with Excellen Merit ce ONE Setting and Style (a) (i) Around the city of Carthage in North Africa Correct response. (a) (ii) The ‘Tyrian companions’ are the entourage of Correct Queen Dido. response. (a) (iii) Dido and her people originally came from Correct the city of Tyre. response. (a) (iv) ALL of: Correct  Ascanius response.  Dardanus, a former king of Troy, was his ancestor  Venus was his grandmother (b) (i) How Dido is dressed: Explains Explains in  She wears a Sidonian cloak with an partially detail EITHER embroidered hem EITHER how how Dido is Dido is dressed dressed OR  She has a quiver of gold OR Aeneas’ Aeneas’  Her hair is knotted into gold (a golden appearance. appearance. clasp)  A golden brooch fastens her purple dress. Aeneas’ appearance:  He is most handsome before all others.  He is compared to Apollo striding on the slopes of Cynthus,  binding his flowing hair, arranging it with soft foliage,  and entwining it with [a circlet of] gold,  and arrows rattle on his shoulder,  just as great a beauty was shining forth from Aeneas’ distinguished face. (b) (ii) What Aeneas is wearing: Explains Explains in  He sports a sword starred with tawny partially what detail what jasper Aeneas is Aeneas is wearing OR why wearing AND  and is resplendent in a cloak of Tyrian Mercury is why Mercury is purple (hanging down from his shoulders, a surprised. surprised. gift made by wealthy Dido)  into which she had woven threads of fine gold. Mercury is surprised because:  Aeneas has fallen victim to the oriental luxury of Carthage  he is wearing the trappings / colours of the queen (purple and gold), which are undignified on a warrior  The sword (presented to him by Dido) is not a warrior’s sword or one won in battle. NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 3 of 14

Achievement Achievement with Q Evidence Achievement with Excellen Merit ce One Linguistic, stylistic or poetic devices could Identifies ONE Identifies TWO Identifies FOUR (c) include, eg: device devices devices Line 172: (coniugium … culpam) The AND AND AND placement at the extremities of the line of Explains Explains in Explains in these two words, which are stark opposites in partially how detail how Virgil detail how Virgil the sense that Dido pretends that the act Virgil uses the uses BOTH uses THREE signifies some kind of blissful union between device to devices to devices to the two lovers whereas in fact it is the enhance the enhance the enhance the beginning of her woes, heightens the idea of poetry. poetry. poetry. how mistaken Dido is and draws an intense contrast between the two words – she thinks it is marriage, but in fact it is a sin. SUFFICIENCY 4 a 1 m + 4 a 1 e + 1 m + 4 a NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 4 of 14

PASSAGE ONE: Part B – cont’d Achievement Achievement Q Evidence Achievement with with Merit Excellence TWO Scansion and Metre (a) (i) Ablative Correct response. (a) (ii) Two Correct response. (a) (iii) pĕ tĭ ē rĕ Correct response. (a) (iv) ululaverunt Correct response. (b) See below. Correctly scans Correctly scans ALL TWO of the first four six feet of the line, feet of the line, and AND shows the BOTH of the fifth correct caesura and sixth feet (2 opportunities). (2 opportunities). The fifth and sixth The fifth and sixth feet must be feet must be correctly divided off, correctly divided off, but the quantity but the quantity given to the last given to the last syllable of the line is syllable of the line is not assessed. not assessed. (i) spēlūn|cām Dī|dō || dūx | ēt Trō|iānŭs ĕ|āndĕm (ii) īllĕ dĭ|ēs prī|mūs lē|tī || prī|mūsquĕ mă|lōrŭm (c) See below. Correctly marks Correctly marks Correctly marks ictus and accent ictus and accent ictus and accent OR AND AND For ONE line: For ONE line: For BOTH lines: Correctly comments Correctly comments Correctly comments on the scansion on the scansion on the scansion AND partially AND correctly AND correctly elaborates on it. elaborates on it. elaborates on it. (i) x x x x x x / / / / / / ille dies primus leti primusque malorum (ii) Line 165 – The spondaic nature of the line gives a slow, heavy feel, suggesting the gravity and perhaps unanticipated surprise and shock of the encounter. OR The position of the words Dido and dux together in the line gives a very clear suggestion that the two are making love in the cave, emphasized by the alliteration of ‘d’ which draws attention to the fact that the words are right next to one another. OR The line framing of speluncam and eandem provides a visual picture of the action, ie Dido and Aeneas are literally inside the same cave. Line 169 – The repetition of primus emphasizes that this was the point where everything starts to go sour, while the words following each primus – leti (‘death’) and malorum (‘troubles’) – leave us in no doubt as to the eventual outcome. OR The lack of coincidence of ictus and accent in the first four feet give the line a rough, irregular feel, suggesting the wrongness of what has happened and the terrible consequences to come. Other responses possible. SUFFICIENCY 4 a 1 m + 4 a 1 e + 1 m + 4 a NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 5 of 14

PASSAGE ONE: Part B – cont’d Achievement Achievement Q Evidence Achievement with with Merit Excellence THREE Accidence and Syntax (a) (i) spumantem Correct response. (a) (ii) meditator OR insequitur Correct response. (a) (iii) cursu OR metu Correct response. (a) (iv) ventum (est) Correct response. (b) (i) acri – ablative, singular, TWO responses in TWO responses in masculine which at least TWO which all THREE out of three pieces pieces of information (ii) misceri – present, passive, of information are are correct infinitive correct (2 opportunities). (iii) iuventus – iuventus, iuventutis, (2 opportunities). feminine (iv) fulsere – perfect, active, indicative (c) (i) decurrere – present, active, For any ONE word, For any THREE For all FOUR words, infinitive; historic infinitive (used to identifies TWO words, identifies identifies TWO denote swift action) pieces of information TWO pieces of pieces of information information (ii) fuga – ablative, singular; ablative of manner OR AND AND For any TWO words, For any TWO words, For any THREE (iii) aprum – accusative, singular; correctly explains correctly explains words, correctly accusative subject (of an the grammar. the grammar. explains the accusative and infinitive) in a grammar. reported statement (iv) leti — genitive, singular; genitive of definition OR partitive genitive (NOT genitive of possession) SUFFICIENCY 4 a 1 m + 4 a 1 e + 1 m + 4 a NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 6 of 14

PASSAGE ONE: Part B – con’t Achievement Achievement Q Evidence Achievement with with Merit Excellence FOUR Allusion and Characterisation (a) (i) ONE of: Correct response.  joyful – gaudet (line 157)  hopeful – optat (line 159) OR dari … votis (line 158) (a) (ii) The positive mood of Ascanius Correct response. contrasts with the dark, gloomy, foreboding mood of the oncoming storm. (a) (iii) Rumour informs Iarbas (the son of Correct response. Jupiter). (a) (iv) Dido has been using her species Correct response. (appearance) and fama (reputation) to shun the suits of African princes, claiming that she was still faithful to Sychaeus, her former husband. (b) Virgil parodies elements of a Comments on TWO Comments on Roman wedding: references to THREE references  Earth as the primal mother, and elements of a to elements of a Heaven as the universal father Roman wedding Roman wedding descending into her lap in AND comments on AND comments in fertilizing showers, symbolize the mood. detail on the mood. wedlock. (2 opportunities). (2 opportunities).  Juno is the pronuba, the matron who assisted the bride.  Juno is the patroness of marriage.  Venus, the mother of the groom, is conspicuously absent.  Dant signum refers to the start of the wedding ceremony.  The ignes refer to the nuptial torches (taedae) with which the bride was conducted home.  Air as conscius acts as the formal witness to the rite.  The shriek of the Nymphs (ulularunt Nymphae) is the bridal hymn (hymenaeus); the word ululo usually signifies a cry of sorrow or horror. Virgil makes the wedding ritually correct, but it remains a supernatural ceremony, and the sense is one of perversion and unnaturalness, awe and terror. NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 7 of 14

Achievement Achievement with Q Evidence Achievement with Excellen Merit ce Four Elements for discussion could include: Discusses Discusses in Discusses in (c) What is the cause of Dido’s culpa – is it that she partially lesser detail greater detail breaks a solemn vow that Jupiter may blast her Dido’s culpa Dido’s culpa and Dido’s culpa and with his thunderbolt to the very depths of the and the extent the extent to the extent to Underworld if she does not remain true to the to which she is which she is which she is memory of her dead husband Sychaeus? guilty of guilty of guilty of wrongdoing. wrongdoing. wrongdoing. Is Dido just an unlucky victim of the playing of the gods, poisoned unknowingly by Cupid, and helplessly abandoned by Juno? How much can she be said to be at fault for falling in love with Aeneas? Virgil specifically says that the encounter in the cave was a culpa. To what extent is Dido responsible for the mis-meeting of minds – she considers that she and Aeneas are ‘married’, when he has no such expectation. Whatever her culpability, how much does Dido deserve her fate? SUFFICIENCY 4 a 1 m + 4 a 1 e + 1 m + 4 a NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 8 of 14

PASSAGE TWO: Part A – Translation Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence 9 (of 21) sections correctly 15 (of 21) sections correctly 18 (of 21) sections correctly translated. translated. translated.

Latin Text Sample Translation ut regina vidit When the queen saw e speculis from her watch-towers primam lucem albescere that the first light was dawning, et classem procedere and that the fleet was moving ahead aequatis velis, with squared sails, -que sensit litora and she realised that the shore et portus vacuos and harbour were empty sine remige, without oarsmen, terque quaterque and thrice and a fourth time percussa decorum pectus manu she struck her lovely breast with her hand -que abscissa flaventes comas and tore her golden hair, ait “pro Juppiter! and said, “By Jupiter! hic advena ibit, Shall this wanderer depart et inluserit nostris regnis? and have mocked our kingdom? non expedient arma Will [some of my people] not prepare arms -que sequentur and pursue him ex tota urbe, from all over the city, -que alii diripient and others rip rates navalibus? the ships from their docks? ite, citi ferte flammas, Go, quickly bring firebrands, date tela, impellite remos!” hand out weapons, heave on the oars!” NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 9 of 14

PASSAGE TWO: Part B – Analysis Achievement Achievement with Q Evidence Achievement with Excellen Merit ce ONE Setting and Style (a) (i) Aeneas (and the Trojans). He is setting sail Correct for Italy. response. (a) (ii) Mercury has warned Aeneas that he is in Correct danger and should leave immediately. response. (a) (iii) ONE of: Correct  Dido’s vow that Jupiter should blast her to response. the depths of the Underworld with his thunderbolt if she broke her vow to stay faithful to the memory of her dead husband Sychaeus.  Her encounter in the cave with Aeneas, and subsequently living as a married couple.  Giving in to her desires for Aeneas.  Neglecting the building of her city. (a) (iv) Dido resolves to take her own life. She Correct builds a funeral pyre and commits suicide response. (stabs herself with Aeneas’ sword) on top of it. (b) (i) The earlier event: Explains Explains in  Dido is referring to the cave scene with partially the detail the earlier Aeneas, engineered by Venus and Juno, earlier event and event and Dido’s when she effectively handed over some Dido’s tone. tone. of her power to Aeneas as she considered their union a marriage.  She subsequently turns over the building of the city to Aeneas, as if he were the ruler of Carthage. Dido’s tone: Her tone is sarcastic, as she mocks Aeneas’ pledge to her as being a sham because he is abandoning her so readily. NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 10 of 14

Achievement Achievement with Q Evidence Achievement with Excellen Merit ce One References in Dido’s curse to historical Summarises Summarises (b) (ii) events: relevant parts of relevant parts of  Dido prays that Dido’s curse Dido’s curse - some unknown avenger may rise up OR AND from her bones explains explains in - to pursue the Trojan settlers with fire partially detail references and sword references to to historical historical details details OR to - now and in the future, and at whatever OR to details details found time their might allows them to. found later in the later in the  This is taken to refer to: Aeneid. Aeneid. - the Carthaginian general Hannibal (who led the Carthaginians against Rome in the Second Punic War, 218–202 BC) - and the three Punic wars fought between Rome and Carthage.  Hannibal is not her direct descendant, but is joined with her by his hate for Rome. References in Dido’s curse to events occurring later in the Aeneid:  Dido prays that: - Aeneas may suffer in war - be banished from his future kingdom - and die prematurely and unhappy.  Aeneas: - is harassed in war by the Rutuli - never returns to Troy - leaves his son to implore aid from Evander - witnesses the cruel deaths of so many of his Trojan people - accepts a peace by which the Italian and Trojan peoples combine, but the name of Troy is lost - reigns for a brief term of three years, then falls in battle and his corpse is not recovered. (c) Linguistic, stylistic or poetic devices could Identifies ONE Identifies TWO Identifies FOUR include, eg: device devices devices Line 595: The succession of rhetorical AND AND AND questions, each increasing in length for Explains Explains in Explains in rhetorical effect, reinforces Dido’s state of partially how detail how Virgil detail how Virgil mind: the queen is in a mad rage, but she Virgil uses the uses BOTH uses THREE has enough wits about her to realise this, device to devices to devices to and the change which is occurring to her enhance the enhance the enhance the character. poetry. poetry. poetry. SUFFICIENCY 4 a 1 m + 4 a 1 e + 1 m + 4 a NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 11 of 14

PASSAGE TWO: Part B – cont’d Achievement Achievement Q Evidence Achievement with with Merit Excellence TWO Scansion and Metre (a) (i) ae-qua-tis Correct response. (a) (ii) Two Correct response. (a) (iii) Long Correct response. (a) (iv) implevissem Correct response. (b) See below. Correctly scans Correctly scans ALL TWO of the first four six feet of the line, feet of the line, and AND shows the BOTH of the fifth correct caesura and sixth feet (2 opportunities). (2 opportunities). The fifth and sixth The fifth and sixth feet must be feet must be correctly divided off, correctly divided off, but the quantity but the quantity given to the last given to the last syllable of the line is syllable of the line is not assessed. not assessed. (i) dīrĭpĭ|ēntquĕ ră|tēs || ălĭ|ī nā|vālĭbŭ|s? ītĕ (ii) fērtĕ cĭ|tī flām|mās, || dătĕ | tēl(a), īm|pēl lĭ tĕ | rēmōs! (c) See below. Correctly marks Correctly marks Correctly marks ictus and accent ictus and accent ictus and accent OR AND AND For ONE line: For ONE line: For BOTH lines: Correctly comments Correctly comments Correctly comments on the scansion on the scansion on the scansion AND partially AND correctly AND correctly elaborates on it. elaborates on it. elaborates on it. (i) x x x x x x (/) / / / / / diripientque rates alii navalibus? ite (ii) Line 593 – The predominance of dactyls in the first three feet give an impression of speed, which underlines the meaning of the words, especially diripient. OR The clash of ictus and accent in the middle of the line suggests the violence of the urgent launching of the ships. OR The very unusual metrical break before ite gives the word great emphasis, and begins a striking series of imperatives. Line 594 – The series of imperatives with asyndeton (lack of conjunctions) heightens the urgency with which Dido rattles off orders in her mad rage. OR The alliteration of ‘t’, especially in the almost stuttering effect of ferte citi and date tela, creates a crescendo of urgency and vehemence, suggesting that Dido is beside herself. Other responses possible. SUFFICIENCY 4 a 1 m + 4 a 1 e + 1 m + 4 a NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 12 of 14

PASSAGE TWO: Part B – cont’d Achievement Achievement Q Evidence Achievement with with Merit Excellence THREE Accidence and Syntax (a) (i) ONE of: Correct response.  ite  ferte  date  impellite (a) (ii) moritura Correct response. (a) (iii) epulandum Correct response. (a) (iv) inluserit Correct response. (b) (i) sequentur – future, active, TWO responses in TWO responses in indicative which at least TWO which all THREE out of three pieces pieces of information (ii) citi – nominative, plural, masculine of information are are correct (iii) mensis – ablative, plural, feminine correct (2 opportunities). (2 opportunities). (iv) exstinxem – pluperfect, active, subjunctive (c) (i) pectus – accusative, singular; For any ONE word, For any THREE For all FOUR words, accusative of respect (after the identifies TWO words, identifies identifies TWO passive past participle percussa) pieces of TWO pieces of pieces of information OR retained accusative with a information) information body part following a passive past OR AND AND participle For any TWO words, For any TWO words, For any THREE (ii) regnis – dative, plural; dative explains the correctly explains words, correctly object after the compound verb grammar. the grammar. explains the inluserit grammar. (iii) subiisse – perfect, active, infinitive; reported statement, original statement was in the past (iv) fuisset – pluperfect, active, subjunctive; past jussive (command) SUFFICIENCY 4 a 1 m + 4 a 1 e + 1 m + 4 a NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 13 of 14

PASSAGE TWO: Part B – con’t Achievement Achievement Q Evidence Achievement with with Merit Excellence FOUR Allusion and Characterisation (a) (i) Aurora is the wife of Tithonus. Correct response. Mention of her marks that it is the next day. (a) (ii) It shows that Dido now Correct response. considers Aeneas to be a foreigner rather than her lover or husband. (a) (iii) Aeneas carried his crippled Correct response. father, Anchises, from the flames of Troy on his shoulders. (a) (iv) Dido means that she could have Correct response. attacked and killed Aeneas and his men when they first landed. (b) The myth of Medea: Describes ONE Describes ONE  who, when being pursued by myth partially AND myth in detail AND her father, killed her own states a consequent states a consequent brother Apsyrtus who was with impression of Dido. impression of Dido. her (2 opportunities). (2 opportunities).  she then scattered his limbs on the sea to delay her pursuers. The myth of Atreus:  who punished his brother Thyestes for raping his (Atreus’s) wife  by inviting him to a banquet and serving him his own children’s cooked flesh. Impression of Dido:  By comparing her to Medea and Atreus, two especially violent and vengeful characters from mythology, Virgil suggests that Dido’s desire for revenge is out of control (and disproportionate, although justified).  By focusing on the horrific deeds in each myth, which are not only brutal but against close kin, Virgil suggests an unsettling connection which weakens sympathy for Dido’s plight. NCEA Level 3 Latin (90508) 2011 — page 14 of 14

Achievement Achievement with Q Evidence Achievement with Excellen Merit ce Four The extent to which Dido’s character is Explains Explains in Explains in (c) consistent with her portrayal in the rest of partially the detail the detail the Aeneid IV, eg: consistency of consistency of consistency of The characterization of Dido in this passage Dido’s character Dido’s character Dido’s character is consistent with her embodying the in this passage in this passage in this passage concept of furor throughout the Aeneid. Her OR ONE other AND ONE other AND THREE wild, confused and shifting mental and passage. passage other passages. emotional state is contrasted with Aeneas’s OR firm and dutiful pietas, and the frenzied Explains in three questions in line 595 and use of the detail the word insania are consistent with her consistency of generally confused, self-doubting and Dido’s character unstable mental state. in TWO other passages. SUFFICIENCY 4 a 1 m + 4 a 1 e + 1 m + 4 a

Judgement Statement

Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence A(Part A) + 2 A(Part B) M(Part A) + 2 M(Part B) E(Part A) + 2 E(Part B)