CODEX 6.1
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KEY-TEXT A
Sinistrus cum Caeciliō
dum Recentiī ab Herculāneō reveniēbant, Sinistrus ad vīllam Caeciliī vēnit.
"salvē, mī amīce!" inquit Sinistrus. rīsus eius urbānus erat. "num negōtium tē tenet? tempus est cēnāre!"
"ita vērō!" respondit Caecilius laetus. "taberna bona nōn procul est. mēcum venīs?"
in tabernā cibum edēbant et vīnum bibēbant, et dē multīs rēbus dīcēbant: dē imperātōre Titō, dē Recentiīs.
"audīvī multa dē tē, mī Caecilī," inquit Sinistrus. "Caesar ipse dē tē audīvit."
"Caesar? dē mē? ego argentārius sum, nōn senātor..."
"argentāriīs paucīs Caesar crēdit. tibi crēdit. et iuvenēs illī, quī apud tē erant: Caesarī labōrant. in silentiō labōrant, et tū eōs iūvistī. sed tacēre dēbēs. Caesar servīs suīs silentium dat, et servī Caesarī silentium dant."
"intellegō," inquit Caecilius. "semper intellegēbam!" oculī eius lūcēbant.
Sinistrus vīnum optimum poposcit. Caecilius tamen, nōn Sinistrus, caupōnī pecūniam dedit.
antequam exiērunt, Sinistrus rogāvit: "quid scīs dē Marcō? quid in Pompēiīs agēbat?"
Caecilius Sinistrō omnia dīxit. Sinistrus audiēbat et subrīdēbat. iam plūra dē Marcō sciēbat quam Marcus ipse putābat.
in viā umbra Sinistrī longior erat quam umbra Caeciliī. Caecilius nihil vīdit.
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KEY-TEXT B
Aenēās in Rēgnō Plūtōnis
Charōn Aenēam in parvā nāve trāns flūmen Acheruntem portābat. trāns flūmen, Aenēās multās umbrās vidēbat. inter umbrās, Aenēās ūnam umbram, Dīdōnem, spectābat. ad Dīdōnem Aenēās cucurrit et Dīdōnī dīcere voluit. Dīdō tamen ad Aenēam nōn spectābat.
Aenēās dīxit, "ō rēgīna, tū in Rēgnō Plūtōnis ades? cūr? nōn erās mortua in Carthāgine."
Dīdō erat tacita.
Aenēās iterum dīxit, "mē paenitet, ō rēgīna. necesse erat mihi discēdere quod Juppiter mē iussit. Juppiter mē iussit ad Italiam nāvigāre. Iuppiter mē iussit novam Trōiam condere. nōluī ā Carthāgine discēdere. trīstis sum prō tē quod nunc tū es mortua."
Dīdō adhūc erat tacita. ad Aenēam nōn spectābat. nōn respondēbat. Dīdō ad marītum mortuum, Sychaeum, ambulāvit et ab Aenēā discessit. Aenēās erat trīstis quod Dīdō nōn respondēbat. sed Aenēās per Rēgnum Plūtōnis ambulāvit.
in Rēgnō, Aenēās multās umbrās hērōum Graecōrum Trōiānōrumque vīdit. hērōēs Graecī statim ab Aenēā fūgērunt sed Trōiānī laetī erant ubi Aenēam vīdērunt. Aenēās ūnum Trōiānum, Dēiphobum, vīdit. Dēiphobus erat marītus Helenae postquam Paris mortuus est. Helena tamen Menelāum Ulixemque in cubiculum vocāvit et Menelāus Dēiphobum necāvit. nunc Dēiphobus erat in Rēgnō Plūtōnis.
Aenēās Dēiphobō dīcere voluit et Dēiphobum salūtāvit. Sibylla tamen ad caelum manū mōnstrābat et Aenēās erat trīstis. necesse erat sibi īre.
Sibylla dīxit, "sunt duae viae. ūna via ad Tartarum dūcit. est locus malus. alia via ad Elysium dūcit. necesse est nōbīs in illā viā ambulāre."
itaque Aenēās et Sibylla ad Elysium ambulāvērunt. in Elysiō, Aenēās ad Mūsaeum vēnit. Mūsaeus erat poēta magnus. Mūsaeus Anchīsēn mōnstrāvit. Anchīsēs erat prope flūmen Lēthē. ad patrem Aenēās cucurrit.
Aenēās patrem suum dē flūmine et umbrīs rogāvit. Anchīsēs respondit, "umbrae ē flūmine Lēthē bibunt et tum iterum in novīs corporibus vīvere incipiunt. ob aquam in flūmine, umbrae dē vītā antīquā nōn putant. multae umbrae hīc posteā ducēs Rōmae erunt. illa umbra," Anchīsēs umbram magnam mōnstrāvit, "erit Gāius Jūlius Caesar Octāviānus Augustus. erit vir optimus et dux potentissimus Rōmae."
Aenēās rogāvit, "quis est ille vir? est iuvenis."
pater Anchīsēs trīstis erat et respondit, "erit Mārcus Claudius Mārcellus. erit nepōs Augustī. trīste est quod Mārcellus erit Rōmānus optimus, sed deī eum capient ā populō Rōmānō. Rōma tamen habēbit tōtum imperium et familia Augustī posteā magna erit."
Aenēās laetus erat quod Rōma potēns erit et habēbit ducēs optimōs. sed tempus erat discēdere. Aenēās dīxit, "valē, ō pater optime," et cum Sibyllā ad portam ambulāvit. Sibylla duās portās Aenēae mōnstrāvit. ūna porta erat dē cornū et umbrae vērae per portam trānsīre poterant. alia porta erat dē ebore et somnia falsa per illam portam exībant.
Aenēās et Sibylla per portam dē ebore exiērunt.
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Informational Text A
Cursus Honōrum
Rōma est rēs pūblica. Rōma nōn rēgem habet. Rōmānī lībertātem amant. Rōmānī honōrēs amant.
"cursus honōrum" est via honōrum Rōmānōrum. in cursū honōrum sunt multī gradūs. nōmen "cursus" est quod Rōmānus per gradūs it.
gradus prīmus: quaestor. quaestor pecūniam cūrat. quaestor pecūniam populī numerat. quaestor pecūniam dat et accipit.
gradus secundus: aedīlis. aedīlis urbem cūrat. aedīlis viās et aedēs et aquam cūrat. aedīlis etiam lūdōs dat. lūdī sunt spectācula populī.
gradus tertius: praetor. praetor est iūdex. praetor iūs dīcit. praetōrēs etiam prōvinciās regunt.
gradus magnus: cōnsul. cōnsul est honor maximus. duo cōnsulēs Rōmam regunt, nōn ūnus. cōnsulēs exercitum dūcunt. cōnsulēs imperium habent. populus Rōmānus cōnsulēs ēligit. cōnsulēs ūnum annum tantum regunt.
post cōnsulēs est senātus. senātōrēs cōnsilia dant. senātōrēs sunt virī magnae auctōritātis.
est etiam cēnsor. cēnsor cīvēs numerat. cēnsor mōrēs cīvium cūrat. cēnsor bonus est et sevērus.
in magnō perīculō, Rōmānī dictātōrem ēligunt. dictātor sōlus regit. dictātor imperium magnum habet. sed dictātor nōn diū regit. dictātor sex mēnsēs tantum regit.
Rōmānī hanc viam honōrum amant. ōrdō est bonus. lēgēs sunt bonae. Rōmānī nōn rēgem sed lēgēs habent.
Informational Text B
Regnum Plūtōnis
Rōmānī et Graecī multās fābulās dē mortuīs nārrābant. in fābulīs, animae mortuōrum sub terrā habitant, in regnō Plūtōnis. Plūtō est deus mortuōrum, et regnum eius magnum et obscūrum est.
anima ad regnum nōn facile venit. prīmum necesse est animae flūmen Acheruntem trānsīre. in flūmine est senex, nōmine Charōn, quī animās in parvā nāve trāns aquam portat. sed Charōn nōn omnēs portat: anima pecūniam dare dēbet. itaque Rōmānī parvam pecūniam in ōre mortuī pōnēbant.
trāns flūmen sunt duae viae. ūna via ad Tartarum dūcit. Tartarus est locus poenārum: ibi animae malae poenās dant. altera via ad Elysium dūcit. Elysium est locus beātōrum: ibi animae bonae in pāce vīvunt. iūdicēs mortuōrum animās spectant et viam mōnstrant.
in Elysiō est flūmen Lēthē. aqua flūminis memoriam capit: anima quae ex aquā bibit vītam antīquam nōn iam tenet. poētae dīcunt: hae animae iterum in novīs corporibus vīvere incipiunt.
ē regnō Plūtōnis sunt duae portae. ūna porta est dē cornū: per hanc portam umbrae vērae exeunt. altera porta est dē ebore (ebur est rēs alba et pulchra, ē dente elephantī): per hanc portam somnia falsa exeunt. cūr Aenēās per portam eburneam exiit? poētae nōn respondent. fortasse tū respondēre potes.
GRAMMATICA
The dative goes plural
Operative, over the last mission you learned to spot the dative, the to/for case, the case of the one who receives what is given, said, or shown. You know its singular endings, and you know mihi, tibi, and eī on sight. What you have not yet had is the plural: what happens when something is given to many people at once. This episode's key-text does exactly that, so the Demiurge judges it time to complete the set.
Watch Sinistrus work:
argentāriīs paucīs Caesar crēdit.
Caesar trusts few bankers.
Caesar servīs suīs silentium dat.
Caesar gives silence to his servants.
hominēs quī pecūniam bene cūrant imperātōribus cārī sunt.
men who manage money well are dear to emperors.
The endings, completing the table
| dative singular | dative plural | |
| 1st Declension | -ae | -īs |
| 2nd Declension | -ō | -īs |
| 3rd Declension | -ī | -ibus |
Two things to notice. First and second declension share the same plural, -īs, so fēminīs is "to the women" and servīs "to the slaves." The third declension takes -ibus: imperātōribus, "to emperors." Second, you have seen -īs doing other jobs before; do not assume every -īs is a dative. Ask the dative question, given, said, or shown to whom?, and let the sentence tell you.
The pronouns, completed
You know mihi (to me) and tibi (to you). Here are their plurals, which you have been reading in every Mission Control transmission for weeks:
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | ego | nōs (we) |
| dative | mihi | nōbīs (to/for us) |
| accusative | mē | nōs (us) |
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tū | vōs (you all) |
| dative | tibi | vōbīs (to/for you all) |
| accusative | tē | vōs (you all) |
When Caecilius says pecūnia mea vōbīs adest ("my money is at hand for you all"), that is vōbīs doing the dative's one job for the whole team at once.
(A shape to notice and read past: Caecilius greets your team in verbs like vēnistis ("you all came") and cēlāvistis ("you all hid"). That -istis is a perfect-tense ending for "you all." Read it as "you all ___ed" for now; the full set of perfect endings is taught later in this mission.)
VERBA
| Latin | English | Part of Speech |
| crēdit | she/he believes, trusts | verb |
| ipse | himself, herself, itself | pronoun |
| petit | she/he seeks, attacks | verb |
| quī | who, which | pronoun |
| vīta | life | noun |
CULTURALIA
Choosing a life in Rome
Operative, Caecilius has just offered your team something no one has offered before: a future. Before you choose in 6.1b, understand what each road actually meant to a Roman, because they were not equal, and none of them was only a job.
The mīles walked the one reliable ladder open to a man without famous ancestors. Twenty years in the legions could end in land, citizenship for his family's future, and the respect Romans gave to nothing so much as military service; every great Roman career, even a politician's, wanted a war record in it. The ōrātor aimed at the Forum and the law courts, and through them at office; speaking well was the engine of the cursus honōrum you read about in the informational text, the path from quaestor toward consul. Cicero, whom Caecilius admires, rose from an unremarkable family to the consulship on his voice alone. The poēta and the historicus lived differently: almost no Roman lived by writing. They lived by patronage, the same web of patrōnus and cliēns you met in Mission 2. A poet like Horace had a patron, Maecenas, who gave him a farm and freedom to write; in return his poems made his patron's circle, and his patron's emperor, immortal. Words were repaid with protection, and protection was repaid with fame. The agricola may look like the humblest choice, but Romans talked about farming the way no other people did: the farmer was their moral ideal, the honest life that made Rome great before money did. Senators wrote books praising the plow, then had slaves do the plowing. Choosing the land says something about your Recentius's character that every Roman would instantly read.
So choose the way a Roman would: not "which sounds fun," but cui, for whom, toward whom, does this life point? Toward the emperor? The crowd in the Forum? A patron? The land? Your worldview already knows.
Locking in your choice
Operative, this immersion (6.1b) presents an opportunity to make an important choice about the way your team's Recentius or Recentia develops. Choosing a profession by itself unlocks LP bonuses in a wide variety of situations; choosing one that works well with your worldview can unlock even higher bonuses, once you do the work of learning how profession and worldview fit together. Each profession has also been programmed into the TSTT to give a special benefit in the immersion-space:
- mīles (greater chance of success when using any arma)
- ōrātor (able to confuse multiple opponents using rhetoric)
- historicus (special call to TSTT operations for extra historical information about anything inside the TSTT)
- poēta (able to use perfect quotations from Latin poetry to convince a character to do something)
- agricola (bonus funding each mission)
When your team has chosen, lock in your decision in your Recentius sheet under the 'ars' section. Choose wisely.
The future in the underworld
One more thing before you follow Aeneas out of the Rēgnum Plūtōnis. In the key-text, Anchises points at souls waiting by the river Lēthē and speaks of them in the future tense: erit Augustus, erit Marcellus. The dead man is showing his son people who have not been born yet, Romans of a future centuries away, and one of them is the emperor under whom Vergil was actually writing. This is the boldest move in the whole Aeneid: Vergil reaches out of the myth and touches his own present, telling Augustus's Rome that it was foretold, and deserved, all along. You saw in Mission 5 how Augustus used the gēns Iūlia's descent from Venus; here is the same machinery at full power, myth built to serve the living.
And then Vergil does something strange. Anchises weeps over the young Marcellus, Augustus's nephew, chosen heir, dead at nineteen. Romans said that when Vergil read this passage aloud, Marcellus's mother Octavia fainted. Why put grief at the center of a poem written to glorify an emperor? Perhaps because praise that admits loss is more believable than praise that does not. Hold that question, and one more: Aeneas leaves through the gate of false dreams. Vergil chose that gate on purpose, and no one has ever settled why. When you answer the last comprehension question, you are entering an argument two thousand years old.
ATTUNEMENT
Attunement, Episode 6.1
Preview each exercise, then copy it into your own Google Drive to complete it.
6.1.a - To one, to many
dative plural production · 8 items6.1.b - What Caecilius believes
interpretive reading · grid + 16.1.c - Aeneas among the dead
reading comprehension · 8 questions6.1.d - Climbing the ladder
ordering + match · 3 parts6.1.e - True to the text
true/false with citation · 6 items6.1.f - Working for a living
products, practices, perspectives · 5 questionsMemorātiō
reflect · recall your pathOperative, hold the thread before you move on. What does Caecilius now believe about your team, and who made him believe it? What did Sinistrus want to know before he left the taberna, and about whom? And in the world below: what did Anchises show Aeneas beside the river Lēthē, and through which gate did you leave the dead? Note these in the memorātiō tab of your dossier.
The operatives who keep the names and the strange turns in hand are the ones who see the whole shape of the story when it matters.
