Sounds: Note the alliteration: curvam cambagibus...contorsit perhaps emphsizing the size of the belly by joining the sounds of the words describing with ths literary tool.
Word Order: Note the example of synchesis (interlocked word order) validis ingentem viribus hastam this illustrates how the spear was infused with forceful power
Imagery: curvam campagibus alvum-the belly curved with seems provides a vivid image for the how the horse must have looked.
Mood: Aeneas shows his frustration at the inability of the Trojans to see the horse for what it was there by preventing the history of things to come
Theme: How the Trojans should have seen the horse for what it was but because of events beyond their control their fate was sealed.
Allusions: using feri to stand in for the horse (Metonymy) using the word feri or wild beast to represent the horse illustrates the danger of the horse to the civilization of Troy.
Grammar: Note the grammar of the word fatus in line 50. The PPP serves as your subject as it is utilized as a substantive adjective. Having spoken thus. Note also that fatus is a deponent verb.
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Aeneid II 31-56
Pars stupet innuptae donum exitiale Minervae
et molem mirantur equi; primusque Thymoetes
duci intra muros hortatur et arce locari,
sive dolo seu jam Trojae sic fata ferebant.
At Capys, et quorum melior sententia menti,
aut pelago Danaum insidias suspectaque dona
praecipitare jubent sujectisque urere flammis, (Jubent is main verb, praecipitare, urere, terebrare and temptare are complimentary infinitives)
aut terebrare cavas uteri et temptare latebras.
Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus.
Primus ibi ante omnis magna comitante caterva (Ablative Absolute)
Laocoon ardens summa decurrit ab arce,
et procul: 'O miseri, quae tanta insania, cives?
Creditis avectos hostis? Aut ulla putatis (Creditis avectos is an indirect statement)
dona carere dolis Danaum? Sic notus Ulixes?
Aut huc inclusi ligno occultantur Achivi,
aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros,
inspectura domos venturaque desuper urbi
aut aliquis latet error; equo ne credite Teucri.
Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.'
Sic fatus validis ingentem viribus hastam
in latus inque feri curvam campagibus alvum
contorsit. Stetit illa tremens, uteroque recusso
insonuere cavae gemitumque dedere cavernae.
Et, si fata deum, si mens non laeva fuisset,
impulerat ferro Argolicas foedare latebras,
Trojaque nunc staret, Priamique arx alta maneres.
et molem mirantur equi; primusque Thymoetes
duci intra muros hortatur et arce locari,
sive dolo seu jam Trojae sic fata ferebant.
At Capys, et quorum melior sententia menti,
aut pelago Danaum insidias suspectaque dona
praecipitare jubent sujectisque urere flammis, (Jubent is main verb, praecipitare, urere, terebrare and temptare are complimentary infinitives)
aut terebrare cavas uteri et temptare latebras.
Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus.
Primus ibi ante omnis magna comitante caterva (Ablative Absolute)
Laocoon ardens summa decurrit ab arce,
et procul: 'O miseri, quae tanta insania, cives?
Creditis avectos hostis? Aut ulla putatis (Creditis avectos is an indirect statement)
dona carere dolis Danaum? Sic notus Ulixes?
Aut huc inclusi ligno occultantur Achivi,
aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros,
inspectura domos venturaque desuper urbi
aut aliquis latet error; equo ne credite Teucri.
Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentis.'
Sic fatus validis ingentem viribus hastam
in latus inque feri curvam campagibus alvum
contorsit. Stetit illa tremens, uteroque recusso
insonuere cavae gemitumque dedere cavernae.
Et, si fata deum, si mens non laeva fuisset,
impulerat ferro Argolicas foedare latebras,
Trojaque nunc staret, Priamique arx alta maneres.
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