I thought the prose was quite nice, and the verse less so. I did quite well on all the past-papers, and I'd say that this years verse was one of the harder ones!
The only thing I found really complicated with the prose was the phrase about the soldiers clinging to the narrows of the gate (I think?), I virtually knew every phrase in this section (the gloss was kinda useless though, icl, why was "protinus" glossed?!) and I think I messed up "contra" and paired it with "Etrusci" when it really meant "on the other hand". I'd be happy with 40/50 for this and I'm confident I've done ok.
As for the verse, bloody hell, the first two sentences, what the hell was going on there?! I ended up abandoning it after roughly trying to translate the sense, probably got 1-2 marks out of 5 for that first couplet, lol. I found the rest of the passage do-able, though I made some stupid mistakes. As some other poster mentioned above, the change of writer's perspective was super weird!
- Managed to write "gold" for his beard and hair, and then crossed it out and wrote bronze (whoops!) - though it's only a slight error so I'll get either 4 or 5 marks out of 5
- I see the Perseus translations as referencing a palace, but I put homes of the Lapith (probably ok I hope)
- I missed up the "placed her mouth on his" and said "brought her face to his" or something like that, again, no idea if that's creditable
- There were probably some agreement problems with wounds/spears in the final few phrases, but I'm still gonna say I hopefully got a 4 for this
Though, I managed to completely massacre the scansion; I technically got all the feet correct, though the positioning was all wrong as I didn't elide the "-um" in "maritum est" - therefore making the entire last sentence invalid of marks, aghhhhh. So, 2/5 for that, whoopsies.
On this I'd be happy with anything over 35, which would hopefully take my overall total to 75/100, which I'm hoping is an A, and maybe even an A* if the boundaries aren't super strict? There's probably more I've missed here, but it wasn't too awful.