LIBER I

BOOK I

ARMA virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram; multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.

I sing of arms and the man, who first from the shores of Troy came to Italy, a refugee by fate, and the Lavinian shores, he having been tossed much both on land and on the deep by the power of the gods above, on account of the mindful anger of savage Juno; having suffered much also in war, until he could found a city, and bring his gods to Latium, from whence came the Latin race, and the Alban fathers, and the walls of lofty Rome.

Musa, mihi causas memora, quo numine laeso, quidve dolens, regina deum tot volvere casus insignem pietate virum, tot adire labores impulerit.

Muse, recount to me the causes, by what insulted divinity, or grieving at what, did the queen of the gods compel a man distinguished for piety to undergo so many misfortunes, to encounter so many labors. compel.

Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

Is there such great anger in heavenly minds?

Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni, Karthago, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe ostia, dives opum studiisque asperrima belli; quam Iuno fertur terris magis omnibus unam posthabita coluisse Samo; hic illius arma, hic currus fuit; hoc regnum dea gentibus esse, si qua fata sinant, iam tum tenditque fovetque.

There was an ancient city, Tyrian colonists held it, Carthage, facing Italy and the mouths of the Tiber from afar, rich in resources and very fierce in the pursuits of war; which alone Juno is said to have cherished more than all lands, even Samos being esteemed less; here were her arms, here was her chariot; that this should be the kingdom for the nations, if any fates should permit, even then the goddess intended and cherished.

Progeniem sed enim Troiano a sanguine duci audierat, Tyrias olim quae verteret arces; hinc populum late regem belloque superbum venturum excidio Libyae: sic volvere Parcas.

But indeed she had heard that a race was being derived from Trojan blood which one day would overturn the Tyrian citadels; that from hence a people ruling far and wide, and proud in war, would come for the destruction of Libya: thus the Fates spun.

Id metuens, veterisque memor Saturnia belli, prima quod ad Troiam pro caris gesserat Argis--- necdum etiam causae irarum saevique dolores exciderant animo: manet alta mente repostum iudicium Paridis spretaeque iniuria formae, et genus invisum, et rapti Ganymedis honores.

Fearing this, and mindful of the ancient war, the daughter of Saturn, ...which she had first waged at Troy for her beloved Argos--- nor yet had the causes of her wrath and her bitter sorrows faded from her mind: there remains stored deep in her soul the judgment of Paris and the injury to her slighted beauty, and the hated race, and the honors of ravished Ganymede.

His accensa super, iactatos aequore toto Troas, reliquias Danaum atque immitis Achilli, arcebat longe Latio, multosque per annos errabant, acti fatis, maria omnia circum.

Inflamed by these things besides, she tossed over the whole sea the Trojans, the remnants left by the Greeks and cruel Achilles, and kept them far from Latium, and for many years they wandered, driven by the fates, around all the seas.

Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem!

Of such great labor it was to found the Roman race!

Vix e conspectu Siculae telluris in altum vela dabant laeti, et spumas salis aere ruebant, cum Iuno, aeternum servans sub pectore volnus, haec secum: 'Mene incepto desistere victam, nec posse Italia Teucrorum avertere regem?

Hardly out of sight of the Sicilian land into the deep they joyfully spread their sails, and were churning the frothing saltwater with their bronze, when Juno, nursing an eternal wound deep in her breast, said these things to herself: "Am I to desist from my undertaking, defeated, and be unable to turn away the king of the Teucrians from Italy?

Quippe vetor fatis.

Surely I am forbidden by the fates.

Pallasne exurere classem Argivom atque ipsos potuit submergere ponto, unius ob noxam et furias Aiacis Oilei?

Was Pallas able to burn up the fleet of the Greeks and submerge the men themselves in the sea, on account of the crime and madness of one man, Ajax, son of Oileus?

Ipsa, Iovis rapidum iaculata e nubibus ignem, disiecitque rates evertitque aequora ventis, illum expirantem transfixo pectore flammas turbine corripuit scopuloque infixit acuto.

She herself, having hurled Jove's swift fire from the clouds, both scattered their ships and upturned the seas with the winds, and him, breathing out flames from his pierced breast, she caught up in a whirlwind and impaled upon a sharp rock.

Ast ego, quae divom incedo regina, Iovisque et soror et coniunx, una cum gente tot annos bella gero!

But I, who walk as queen of the gods, and both sister and wife of Jove, wage war with a single nation for so many years I wage war!

Et quisquam numen Iunonis adoret praeterea, aut supplex aris imponet honorem?'

And will anyone adore the divine power of Juno hereafter, or place an honor on her altars as a suppliant?'

Talia flammato secum dea corde volutans nimborum in patriam, loca feta furentibus austris, Aeoliam venit.

Turning such things over with herself in her inflamed heart, the goddess came into the homeland of storm-clouds, places teeming with raging south winds, to Aeolia.

Hic vasto rex Aeolus antro luctantes ventos tempestatesque sonoras imperio premit ac vinclis et carcere frenat.

Here, in a vast cave, King Aeolus represses the wrestling winds and resounding storms with his command, and restrains them with chains and a prison.

Illi indignantes magno cum murmure montis circum claustra fremunt; celsa sedet Aeolus arce sceptra tenens, mollitque animos et temperat iras.

They, chafing, roar around the barriers with a great murmur of the mountain; Aeolus sits on his lofty citadel holding his scepter, and he softens their spirits and tempers their wraths.

Ni faciat, maria ac terras caelumque profundum quippe ferant rapidi secum verrantque per auras.

If he should not do this, surely the rapid winds would carry away with themselves the seas and lands and the deep sky, and sweep them through the air.

Sed pater omnipotens speluncis abdidit atris, hoc metuens, molemque et montis insuper altos imposuit, regemque dedit, qui foedere certo et premere et laxas sciret dare iussus habenas.

But the all-powerful father hid them in dark caves, fearing this, and placed a mass and lofty mountains above them, and gave them a king who, by a fixed agreement, would know how both to tighten and to give loose reins when ordered.

Ad quem tum Iuno supplex his vocibus usa est:

To him then, Juno as a suppliant used these words:

'Aeole, namque tibi divom pater atque hominum rex et mulcere dedit fluctus et tollere vento, gens inimica mihi Tyrrhenum navigat aequor, Ilium in Italiam portans victosque Penates: incute vim ventis submersasque obrue puppes, aut age diversos et disiice corpora ponto.

'Aeolus, for to you the father of the gods and king of men has granted both to soothe the waves and to raise them with the wind, a race hostile to me sails the Tyrrhenian sea, carrying Ilium and its conquered household gods into Italy: strike force into the winds and overwhelm their sunken ships, or drive them scattered and scatter their bodies on the sea.

Sunt mihi bis septem praestanti corpore nymphae, quarum quae forma pulcherrima Deiopea, conubio iungam stabili propriamque dicabo, omnis ut tecum meritis pro talibus annos exigat, et pulchra faciat te prole parentem.'

I have twice seven nymphs of outstanding body, Of these, Deiopea, who is the most beautiful in form, I will join to you in stable wedlock and dedicate as your own, so that for such merits she may spend all her years with you, and make you a father with beautiful offspring."

Aeolus haec contra: 'Tuus, O regina, quid optes explorare labor; mihi iussa capessere fas est.

Aeolus said this in reply: "Your task, O queen, is to examine what you desire; it is right for me to execute your commands.

Tu mihi, quodcumque hoc regni, tu sceptra Iovemque concilias, tu das epulis accumbere divom, nimborumque facis tempestatumque potentem.'

You win over for me whatever there is of this kingdom, you win my scepter and Jove's favor, you grant me the right to recline at the feasts of the gods, and you make me powerful over clouds and storms."

Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem impulit in latus: ac venti, velut agmine facto, qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant.

When these words were spoken, he struck the hollow mountain against its side with his turned spear: and the winds, as if in a formed battle line, where a passage was given, rush forth and blow through the lands in a whirlwind.

Incubuere mari, totumque a sedibus imis una Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis Africus, et vastos volvunt ad litora fluctus.

They have fallen upon the sea, and from its lowest depths both the East wind and the South wind and the Southwest wind, thick with storms, rush together and roll vast waves toward the shores.

Insequitur clamorque virum stridorque rudentum.

There follows both the shouting of men and the creaking of ropes.

Eripiunt subito nubes caelumque diemque Teucrorum ex oculis; ponto nox incubat atra.

Suddenly the clouds snatch away both the sky and the daylight from the eyes of the Trojans; black night broods over the sea.

Iutonuere poli, et crebris micat ignibus aether, praesentemque viris intentant omnia mortem.

The poles thundered, and the upper air flashes with frequent fires, and all things threaten instant death to the men.

Extemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra: ingemit, et duplicis tendens ad sidera palmas talia voce refert: 'O terque quaterque beati, quis ante ora patrum Troiae sub moenibus altis contigit oppetere!

Immediately the limbs of Aeneas are loosened with chilling fear; he groans, and stretching both palms to the stars he cries out such words with his voice: "O three and four times blessed, whose lot it was to die before the faces of their fathers under the high walls of Troy! [that] it befell [them] to perish!

O Danaum fortissime gentis Tydide!

O Diomedes, bravest of the race of the Greeks!" O son of Tydeus!

Mene Iliacis occumbere campis non potuisse, tuaque animam hanc effundere dextra, saevus ubi Aeacidae telo iacet Hector, ubi ingens Sarpedon, ubi tot Simois correpta sub undis scuta virum galeasque et fortia corpora volvit?'

Could I not have fallen on the Trojan plains and been able to pour forth this spirit by your right hand, where fierce Hector lies by the spear of Achilles, where mighty Sarpedon lies, where the Simois rolls beneath its waves so many snatched away shields of men and helmets and brave bodies?'

Talia iactanti stridens Aquilone procella velum adversa ferit, fluctusque ad sidera tollit.

As he hurls such words, a howling blast from the North strikes the sail full on, and lifts the waves to the stars.

Franguntur remi; tum prora avertit, et undis dat latus; insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons.

The oars are broken; then the prow turns away, and to the waves gives its side; a towering mountain of water follows in a sheer mass.

Hi summo in flucta pendent; his unda dehiscens terram inter fluctus aperit; furit aestus harenis.

These men hang on the crest of the wave; to those the gaping water discloses the earth between the waves; the surge rages with the sand.

Tris Notus abreptas in saxa latentia torquet--- saxa vocant Itali mediis quae in fluctibus aras--- dorsum immane mari summo; tris Eurus ab alto in brevia et Syrtis urguet, miserabile visu, inliditque vadis atque aggere cingit harenae.

Three ships the South Wind catches and hurls upon hidden rocks--- rocks in the midst of the waves which the Italians call the Altars--- a massive ridge at the surface of the sea; three others the East Wind drives from the deep into the shallows and the quicksands, a piteous sight to see, and dashes them into the shoals and girdles them with a mound of sand.

Unam, quae Lycios fidumque vehebat Oronten, ipsius ante oculos ingens a vertice pontus in puppim ferit: excutitur pronusque magister volvitur in caput; ast illam ter fluctus ibidem torquet agens circum, et rapidus vorat aequore vortex.

One ship, which was carrying the Lycians and faithful Orontes, before the eyes of [Aeneas] himself, a huge sea from high above strikes against the stern: the helmsman is shaken out and headlong is rolled on his head; but three times in the same spot the wave drives the ship spinning around, and a swift whirlpool swallows it up in the sea.

Adparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto, arma virum, tabulaeque, et Troia gaza per undas.

Scattered swimmers appear in the vast abyss, arms of men, and planks, and the treasure of Troy through the waves.

Iam validam Ilionei navem, iam fortis Achati, et qua vectus Abas, et qua grandaevus Aletes, vicit hiems; laxis laterum compagibus omnes accipiunt inimicum imbrem, rimisque fatiscunt.

Now the stout ship of Ilioneus, now that of brave Achates, and that in which Abas sailed, and that of aged Aletes, the storm has conquered; with the joints of their sides loosened, all receive the hostile water, and gape open with cracks.

Interea magno misceri murmure pontum, emissamque hiemem sensit Neptunus, et imis stagna refusa vadis, graviter commotus; et alto prospiciens, summa placidum caput extulit unda.

Meanwhile, Neptune sensed that the sea was being confused with a great roar, and that a storm had been sent forth, and from the lowest depths the still waters were poured back, greatly troubled; and looking out over the deep, he raised his calm head above the surface of the wave.

Disiectam Aeneae, toto videt aequore classem, fluctibus oppressos Troas caelique ruina, nec latuere doli fratrem Iunonis et irae.

He sees the scattered fleet of Aeneas over the whole sea, the Trojans overwhelmed by the waves and the ruin of heaven, nor did the tricks and wrath of Juno escape the notice of her brother.

Eurum ad se Zephyrumque vocat, dehinc talia fatur:

He calls the East and West winds to himself, then speaks such words:

'Tantane vos generis tenuit fiducia vestri?

"Has such great confidence in your lineage possessed you?

Iam caelum terramque meo sine numine, venti, miscere, et tantas audetis tollere moles?

Do you dare now, O winds, to mix heaven and earth without my divine will, and to raise up such massive heaps?

Quos ego---sed motos praestat componere fluctus.

Whom I---but it is better to compose the stirred waves.

Post mihi non simili poena commissa luetis.

Afterwards, you shall atone to me for your misdeeds with no similar punishment.

Maturate fugam, regique haec dicite vestro: non illi imperium pelagi saevumque tridentem, sed mihi sorte datum.

Hasten your flight, and say these things to your king: not to him was given the empire of the sea and the cruel trident, but to me by lot.

Tenet ille immania saxa, vestras, Eure, domos; illa se iactet in aula Aeolus, et clauso ventorum carcere regnet.'

He holds the immense rocks, your homes, O East wind; let Aeolus boast in that hall and rule in that closed prison of the winds."

Sic ait, et dicto citius tumida aequora placat, collectasque fugat nubes, solemque reducit.

Thus he speaks, and quicker than the word he calms the swollen seas, and puts to flight the gathered clouds, and brings back the sun.

Cymothoe simul et Triton adnixus acuto detrudunt navis scopulo; levat ipse tridenti; et vastas aperit syrtis, et temperat aequor, atque rotis summas levibus perlabitur undas.

At the same time, Cymothoe and Triton, pushing against them, dislodge the ships from the sharp They push the ships off the rock; he himself lifts them with his trident; and opens the vast quicksands, and calms the sea, and glides over the tops of the waves with light wheels.

Ac veluti magno in populo cum saepe coorta est seditio, saevitque animis ignobile volgus, iamque faces et saxa volant---furor arma ministrat; tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant; ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet,--- sic cunctus pelagi cecidit fragor, aequora postquam prospiciens genitor caeloque invectus aperto flectit equos, curruque volans dat lora secundo.

And just as when, in a great crowd, a riot has often arisen and the ignoble rabble rages in their minds, and now torches and stones fly—fury provides weapons; then, if by chance they catch sight of any man weighty with piety and merits, they fall silent, and stand by with attentive ears; he rules their minds with his words, and soothes their breasts— thus the entire roar of the sea subsided, after the father, looking out upon the waters and riding under an open sky, turns his horses, and flying along, gives reins to his obedient chariot.

Defessi Aeneadae, quae proxima litora, cursu contendunt petere, et Libyae vertuntur ad oras.

Weary, the followers of Aeneas strive to seek the nearest shores in their course, and are turned toward the coasts of Libya.

Est in secessu longo locus: insula portum efficit obiectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos.

There is a place in a deep recess: an island forms a harbor by the barrier of its sides, against which every wave from the deep is broken and divides itself into receding curves.

Hinc atque hinc vastae rupes geminique minantur in caelum scopuli, quorum sub vertice late aequora tuta silent; tum silvis scaena coruscis desuper horrentique atrum nemus imminet umbra.

On this side and on that, vast cliffs and twin rocks tower into the sky, beneath whose summit far and wide the safe waters are silent; then, a background of shimmering woods hangs from above, and a dark grove looms with bristling shade.

Fronte sub adversa scopulis pendentibus antrum, intus aquae dulces vivoque sedilia saxo, nympharum domus: hic fessas non vincula navis ulla tenent, unco non alligat ancora morsu.

Beneath the opposing face is a cave of hanging rocks, within are sweet waters and seats of living stone, the home of the nymphs: here no cables hold the weary ships, no anchor binds them with its hooked bite.

Huc septem Aeneas collectis navibus omni ex numero subit; ac magno telluris amore egressi optata potiuntur Troes harena, et sale tabentis artus in litore ponunt.

Hither Aeneas enters with seven ships gathered from the entire number; and with a great longing for the land, the Trojans disembark and gain the chosen shore, and stretch their limbs dripping with brine upon the beach.

Ac primum silici scintillam excudit Achates, succepitque ignem foliis, atque arida circum nutrimenta dedit, rapuitque in fomite flammam.

And first Achates struck a spark from flint, and caught the fire with leaves, and all around he placed dry nourishment, and quickly fanned the flame in the fuel.

Tum Cererem corruptam undis Cerealiaque arma expediunt fessi rerum, frugesque receptas et torrere parant flammis et frangere saxo.

Then, weary of their trials, they bring out the grain spoiled by the waters and the tools of Ceres, and they prepare both to parch the recovered grain over the flames and to crush it with stone.

Aeneas scopulum interea conscendit, et omnem prospectum late pelago petit, Anthea si quem iactatum vento videat Phrygiasque biremis, aut Capyn, aut celsis in puppibus arma Caici.

Meanwhile, Aeneas climbs a cliff, and seeks a complete view far and wide over the sea, if he might see anything of Antheus tossed by the wind, and the Phrygian biremes, or Capys, or the armor of Caicus on the high sterns.

Navem in conspectu nullam, tris litore cervos prospicit errantis; hos tota armenta sequuntur a tergo, et longum per vallis pascitur agmen.

No ship does he see in sight, but he spots three stags wandering on the shore; the entire herd follows them from behind, and the long column grazes through the valleys.

Constitit hic, arcumque manu celerisque sagittas corripuit, fidus quae tela gerebat Achates; ductoresque ipsos primum, capita alta ferentis cornibus arboreis, sternit, tum volgus, et omnem miscet agens telis nemora inter frondea turbam; nec prius absistit, quam septem ingentia victor corpora fundat humi, et numerum cum navibus aequet.

He stopped here, and seized in his hand the bow and swift arrows, the weapons which faithful Achates was carrying; and first he lays low the leaders themselves, bearing their heads high with branching antlers, then the common herd, and drives the entire crowd, throwing them into confusion with his weapons among the leafy groves; nor does he stop until, as victor, he pours forth seven huge bodies upon the ground, and matches their number with his ships.

Hinc portum petit, et socios partitur in omnes.

From here he seeks the harbor, and divides them among all his companions.

Vina bonus quae deinde cadis onerarat Acestes litore Trinacrio dederatque abeuntibus heros, dividit, et dictis maerentia pectora mulcet:

The wine which good Acestes had then loaded into jars on the Sicilian shore and, a hero, had given to them as they departed, he divides, and with words soothes their grieving hearts:

'O socii---neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum--- O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem.

"O companions---for indeed we are not ignorant of hardships before--- O you who have suffered heavier things, God will grant an end to these also.

Vos et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantis accestis scopulos, vos et Cyclopea saxa experti: revocate animos, maestumque timorem mittite: forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

You have both approached the fury of Scylla and her deeply sounding cliffs, and you have experienced the Cyclopean rocks: recall your courage, and dismiss sorrowful fear: perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to remember even these things.

Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum tendimus in Latium; sedes ubi fata quietas ostendunt; illic fas regna resurgere Troiae.

Through varied misfortunes, through so many crises of circumstances we make our way to Latium, where the fates hold out peaceful homes; there it is divine will that the kingdoms of Troy rise again.

Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.'

Endure, and preserve yourselves for favorable times."

Talia voce refert, curisque ingentibus aeger spem voltu simulat, premit altum corde dolorem.

Such things he speaks with his voice, and though sick with massive anxieties he feigns hope on his face, and presses grief deep in his heart.

Illi se praedae accingunt, dapibusque futuris; tergora deripiunt costis et viscera nudant; pars in frusta secant veribusque trementia figunt; litore aena locant alii, flammasque ministrant.

They gird themselves for the spoil, and for the future feast; they tear the hides from the ribs and lay bare the flesh; some cut it into pieces and transfix it, still quivering, on spits; others place bronze cauldrons on the shore, and tend the flames.

Tum victu revocant vires, fusique per herbam implentur veteris Bacchi pinguisque ferinae.

Then with food they restore their strength, and stretched out through the grass they fill themselves with old wine and rich venison.

Postquam exempta fames epulis mensaeque remotae, amissos longo socios sermone requirunt, spemque metumque inter dubii, seu vivere credant, sive extrema pati nec iam exaudire vocatos.

After their hunger was banished by the feast and the tables were removed, in a long conversation they mourn their lost companions, wavering between hope and fear, whether they should believe them to be alive, or that they are suffering their final fate and no longer hear when called.

Praecipue pius Aeneas nunc acris Oronti, nunc Amyci casum gemit et crudelia secum fata Lyci, fortemque Gyan, fortemque Cloanthum.

Especially does pious Aeneas mourn now the fate of fierce Orontes, now that of Amycus, and within himself he laments the cruel destiny of Lycus, and brave Gyas, and brave Cloanthus.

Et iam finis erat, cum Iuppiter aethere summo despiciens mare velivolum terrasque iacentis litoraque et latos populos, sic vertice caeli constitit, et Libyae defixit lumina regnis.

And now there was an end, when Jupiter, from the highest heaven looking down upon the sail-winged sea and the outspread lands, and the shores and the widespread peoples, thus on the summit of heaven paused, and fixed his eyes upon the kingdoms of Libya.

Atque illum talis iactantem pectore curas tristior et lacrimis oculos suffusa nitentis adloquitur Venus: 'O qui res hominumque deumque aeternis regis imperiis, et fulmine terres, quid meus Aeneas in te committere tantum, quid Troes potuere, quibus, tot funera passis, cunctus ob Italiam terrarum clauditur orbis?

And as he revolved such cares within his breast, Venus, sadder than usual, her shining eyes brimming with tears, addresses him: "O you who rule the affairs of both men and gods with eternal commands, and terrify them with your thunderbolt, what so great offense could my Aeneas commit against you, what could the Trojans do, against whom, having suffered so many deaths, the whole circle of the earth is closed on account of Italy?

Certe hinc Romanos olim, volventibus annis, hinc fore ductores, revocato a sanguine Teucri, qui mare, qui terras omni dicione tenerent, pollicitus, quae te, genitor, sententia vertit?

Surely you promised that from this line one day, as the years roll on, from this line leaders would arise, from the restored blood of Teucer, who would hold the sea, who would hold all lands under their absolute sway; father, what thought has turned you back?

Hoc equidem occasum Troiae tristisque ruinas solabar, fatis contraria fata rependens; nunc eadem fortuna viros tot casibus actos insequitur.

With this indeed I used to console myself for the fall of Troy and its sad ruins, balancing adverse fates with counter-fates; now the same fortune pursues these men driven by so many misfortunes. There follows.

Quem das finem, rex magne, laborum?

What end to their labors do you grant, great king?

Antenor potuit, mediis elapsus Achivis, Illyricos penetrare sinus, atque intima tutus regna Liburnorum, et fontem superare Timavi, unde per ora novem vasto cum murmure montis it mare proruptum et pelago premit arva sonanti.

Antenor was able, having escaped from the midst of the Greeks, to penetrate the Illyrian gulfs, and safely to cross the innermost the kingdoms of the Liburnians, and to pass beyond the source of the Timavus, from where through nine mouths with a vast roar of the mountain it goes forth as a bursting sea and overwhelms the fields with its sounding flood.

Hic tamen ille urbem Patavi sedesque locavit Teucrorum, et genti nomen dedit, armaque fixit Troia; nunc placida compostus pace quiescit: nos, tua progenies, caeli quibus adnuis arcem, navibus (infandum!)

Yet here he established the city of Patavium and the dwellings of the Teucrians, and gave a name to the nation, and hung up his Trojan arms; now settled in calm peace he rests: but we, your offspring, to whom you promise the citadel of heaven, our ships (unutterable woe!)

amissis, unius ob iram prodimur atque Italis longe disiungimur oris.

having been lost, because of the anger of one person are betrayed and kept far away from the Italian shores.

Hic pietatis honos?

Is this the reward for piety?

Sic nos in sceptra reponis?'

Is this how you restore us to our sovereign power?"

Olli subridens hominum sator atque deorum, voltu, quo caelum tempestatesque serenat, oscula libavit natae, dehinc talia fatur: 'Parce metu, Cytherea: manent immota tuorum fata tibi; cernes urbem et promissa Lavini moenia, sublimemque feres ad sidera caeli magnanimum Aenean; neque me sententia vertit.

Smiling upon her, the father of men and of gods, with that look by which he clears the sky and the storms, gently kissed his daughter, and then spoke these words: "Spare your fear, Cytherea: the destinies of your people remain unmoved for you; you shall see the city and the promised walls of Lavinium, and you shall bear aloft to the stars of heaven great-hearted Aeneas; nor has any thought changed my mind.

Hic tibi (fabor enim, quando haec te cura remordet, longius et volvens fatorum arcana movebo) bellum ingens geret Italia, populosque feroces contundet, moresque viris et moenia ponet, tertia dum Latio regnantem viderit aestas, ternaque transierint Rutulis hiberna subactis.

He for you (for I will speak at greater length, since this anxiety gnaws at you, and unrolling the secrets of the fates I will reveal them) shall wage a mighty war in Italy, and crush fierce nations, and establish customs and walls for his people, until a third summer shall have seen him reigning in Latium, and three winters shall have passed after the Rutulians have been subdued.

At puer Ascanius, cui nunc cognomen Iulo additur,---Ilus erat, dum res stetit Ilia regno,--- triginta magnos volvendis mensibus orbis imperio explebit, regnumque ab sede Lavini transferet, et longam multa vi muniet Albam.

But the boy Ascanius, to whom the surname Iulus is now added,---he was Ilus, while the Ilian state stood firm in its sovereignty,--- Thirty great circles of the sun, as the months roll on, he shall fulfill with his rule, and the kingdom from Lavinium's seat he shall transfer, and shall fortify Alba Longa with great power.

Hic iam ter centum totos regnabitur annos gente sub Hectorea, donec regina sacerdos, Marte gravis, geminam partu dabit Ilia prolem.

Here now it shall be ruled for three hundred whole years under the race of Hector, until a royal priestess, pregnant by Mars, Ilia shall give birth to twin offspring.

Inde lupae fulvo nutricis tegmine laetus Romulus excipiet gentem, et Mavortia condet moenia, Romanosque suo de nomine dicet.

Then, joyful in the tawny hide of his nurse, the wolf, Romulus shall take up the nation, and shall found the Martian walls, and shall call them Romans after his own name.

His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono; imperium sine fine dedi.

For these I set neither bounds nor periods to their fortunes; I have given them empire without end.

Quin aspera Iuno, quae mare nunc terrasque metu caelumque fatigat, consilia in melius referet, mecumque fovebit Romanos rerum dominos gentemque togatam: sic placitum.

Nay, even harsh Juno, who now wearies the sea and lands and sky with her fear, shall change her counsels for the better, and with me shall cherish the Romans, masters of the world, and the toga-wearing race: thus it is decreed.

Veniet lustris labentibus aetas, cum domus Assaraci Phthiam clarasque Mycenas servitio premet, ac victis dominabitur Argis.

An age shall come, as the years glide by, when the house of Assaracus shall crush Phthia and renowned Mycenae in servitude, and shall rule over conquered Argos.

Nascetur pulchra Troianus origine Caesar, imperium oceano, famam qui terminet astris,--- Iulius, a magno demissum nomen Iulo.

There shall be born a Trojan Caesar of noble origin, who shall limit his empire by the ocean, his fame by the stars,--- Julius, a name descended from great Iulus.

Hunc tu olim caelo, spoliis Orientis onustum, accipies secura; vocabitur hic quoque votis.

Him you, free from care, shall one day receive into heaven, laden with the spoils of the East; he too shall be invoked with vows.

Aspera tum positis mitescent saecula bellis; cana Fides, et Vesta, Remo cum fratre Quirinus, iura dabunt; dirae ferro et compagibus artis claudentur Belli portae; Furor impius intus, saeva sedens super arma, et centum vinctus aenis post tergum nodis, fremet horridus ore cruento.'

Then, with wars laid aside, the harsh ages shall grow mild; hoary Faith, and Vesta, and Quirinus with his brother Remus, shall give laws; the dreadful gates of War with tight iron fastenings shall be shut; godless Rage within, sitting high on savage arms, and bound behind his back with a hundred bronze knots, shall roar horribly with bloody mouth."

Haec ait, et Maia genitum demittit ab alto, ut terrae, utque novae pateant Karthaginis arces hospitio Teucris, ne fati nescia Dido finibus arceret: volat ille per aera magnum remigio alarum, ac Libyae citus adstitit oris.

He says this, and sends the son of Maia down from the sky, so that the lands and the new towers of Carthage might open in hospitality to the Teucrians, lest Dido, ignorant of fate, should keep them from her borders: he flies through the wide air with the oarage of wings, and quickly stood on the shores of Libya.

Et iam iussa facit, ponuntque ferocia Poeni corda volente deo; in primis regina quietum accipit in Teucros animum mentemque benignam.

And now he performs his commands, and the Phoenicians lay aside their fierce hearts at the god's will; above all, the queen adopts a peaceful spirit and a kindly mind toward the Teucrians.

At pius Aeneas, per noctem plurima volvens, ut primum lux alma data est, exire locosque explorare novos, quas vento accesserit oras, qui teneant, nam inculta videt, hominesne feraene, quaerere constituit, sociisque exacta referre Classem in convexo nemorum sub rupe cavata arboribus clausam circum atque horrentibus umbris occulit; ipse uno graditur comitatus Achate, bina manu lato crispans hastilia ferro.

But dutiful Aeneas, turning over many things through the night, as soon as the kindly light was given, resolved to go out and explore the new places, to seek what shores he had reached by the wind, and who occupy them—for he sees untilled land—whether men or beasts, and to bring back his discoveries to his companions. The fleet, under a hollow rock in a recess of the woods, enclosed around by trees and bristling shadows, he hides; he himself walks accompanied by Achates alone, brandishing in his hand two spears with broad iron heads.

Cui mater media sese tulit obvia silva, virginis os habitumque gerens, et virginis arma Spartanae, vel qualis equos Threissa fatigat Harpalyce, volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum.

To him his mother came to meet him in the midst of the forest, bearing the face and dress of a maiden, and the armor of a maiden of Sparta, or such as Thracian Harpalyce when she tires out horses and outstrips the swift Hebrus in her flight.

Namque umeris de more habilem suspenderat arcum venatrix, dederatque comam diffundere ventis, nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluentis.

For from her shoulders, according to custom, she had slung a handy bow like a huntress, and she had given her hair to the winds to scatter, bare to the knee, and with the flowing folds of her dress gathered up in a knot.

Ac prior, 'Heus' inquit 'iuvenes, monstrate mearum vidistis si quam hic errantem forte sororum, succinctam pharetra et maculosae tegmine lyncis, aut spumantis apri cursum clamore prementem.'

And she first said, "Ho, young men, tell me if you have seen any of my sisters wandering here by chance, girt with a quiver and the skin of a spotted lynx, or shouting as she presses hard on the track of a foaming boar."

Sic Venus; et Veneris contra sic filius orsus: 'Nulla tuarum audita mihi neque visa sororum--- O quam te memorem, virgo?

Thus spoke Venus; and the son of Venus in response thus began: "None of your sisters has been heard or seen by me--- O, what shall I call you, maiden?

Namque haud tibi voltus mortalis, nec vox hominem sonat: O, dea certe--- an Phoebi soror?

For your face is not mortal, nor does your voice sound human: Oh, a goddess surely!--- Are you the sister of Phoebus?

an nympharum sanguinis una?--- sis felix, nostrumque leves, quaecumque, laborem, et, quo sub caelo tandem, quibus orbis in oris iactemur, doceas.

Or one of the blood of the nymphs?--- May you be kind, and lighten our distress, whoever you are, and teach us beneath what sky at last, on what shores of the world we are being cast.

Ignari hominumque locorumque erramus, vento huc vastis et fluctibus acti: multa tibi ante aras nostra cadet hostia dextra.'

Ignorant of both the people and the places, we wander, driven here by the wind and vast waves: many a victim shall fall before your altars by our right hand."

Tum Venus: 'Haud equidem tali me dignor honore; virginibus Tyriis mos est gestare pharetram, purpureoque alte suras vincire cothurno.

Then Venus said: "Indeed I do not deem myself worthy of such honor; it is the custom for Tyrian maidens to carry a quiver, and to bind their calves high with a purple boot.

Punica regna vides, Tyrios et Agenoris urbem; sed fines Libyci, genus intractabile bello.

You see Punic realms, Tyrians, and the city of Agenor; but the borders are Libyan, a race fierce in war.

Imperium Dido Tyria regit urbe profecta, germanum fugiens.

Dido rules the empire, having set out from the Tyrian city, fleeing her brother."

Longa est iniuria, longae ambages; sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.

Long is the tale of wrong, long and winding; but I will trace the main outlines of the story.

'Huic coniunx Sychaeus erat, ditissimus agri Phoenicum, et magno miserae dilectus amore, cui pater intactam dederat, primisque iugarat ominibus.

'Her husband was Sychaeus, wealthiest in land of the Phoenicians, and loved with a great passion by the unhappy girl, to whom her father had given her as a virgin, wedding them with the first omens.

Sed regna Tyri germanus habebat Pygmalion, scelere ante alios immanior omnes.

But the kingdom of Tyre was held by her brother Pygmalion, more monstrous in crime than all others.

Quos inter medius venit furor.

Between them a madness arose. He,

Ille Sychaeum impius ante aras, atque auri caecus amore, clam ferro incautum superat, securus amorum germanae; factumque diu celavit, et aegram, multa malus simulans, vana spe lusit amantem.

impious before the altars and blinded by the love of gold, secretly overcomes the unsuspecting Sychaeus with the sword, regardless of the love of his sister; and for a long time he hid the deed, and, evilly feigning much, mocked the lovesick wife with empty hope.

Ipsa sed in somnis inhumati venit imago coniugis, ora modis attollens pallida miris, crudeles aras traiectaque pectora ferro nudavit, caecumque domus scelus omne retexit.

But the very ghost of her unburied husband came in her sleep, raising up a pale face in a wondrous manner; he laid bare the cruel altars and the breast pierced with the sword, and uncovered all the hidden crime of the house.

Tum celerare fugam patriaque excedere suadet, auxiliumque viae veteres tellure recludit thesauros, ignotum argenti pondus et auri.

Then he urges her to hasten her flight and leave her fatherland, and to aid her journey he reveals ancient treasures in the earth, an unknown mass of silver and gold.

His commota fugam Dido sociosque parabat: conveniunt, quibus aut odium crudele tyranni aut metus acer erat; navis, quae forte paratae, corripiunt, onerantque auro: portantur avari Pygmalionis opes pelago; dux femina facti.

Moved by these things, Dido prepared her flight and companions: they assemble, those who had either a cruel hatred of the tyrant or a sharp fear; ships, which by chance were ready, they seize and load with gold; the wealth of greedy Pygmalion is carried over the sea; a woman is the leader of the deed.

Devenere locos, ubi nunc ingentia cernis moenia surgentemque novae Karthaginis arcem, mercatique solum, facti de nomine Byrsam, taurino quantum possent circumdare tergo.

They came to the place where now you see the huge walls and the rising citadel of new Carthage, and they bought ground, called Byrsa from the name of the deed, as much as they could encompass with a bull's hide.

Sed vos qui tandem, quibus aut venistis ab oris, quove tenetis iter?

But who are you, then? Or from what shores have you come, or whither do you hold your course?"

'Quaerenti talibus ille suspirans, imoque trahens a pectore vocem:

To her questioning, he, with such words, sighing and drawing his voice from the depths of his breast, replied:

'O dea, si prima repetens ab origine pergam, et vacet annalis nostrorum audire laborum, ante diem clauso componat Vesper Olympo.

"O goddess, if I were to go back and trace from the first beginning, and if you had leisure to hear the chronicle of our labors, the evening star would lay the day to rest and close Olympus before I finished.

Nos Troia antiqua, si vestras forte per auris Troiae nomen iit, diversa per aequora vectos forte sua Libycis tempestas adpulit oris.

From ancient Troy, if by chance through your ears the name of Troy has passed, driven through diverse seas, a storm by its own chance has driven us to the Libyan shores.

Sum pius Aeneas, raptos qui ex hoste Penates classe veho mecum, fama super aethera notus.

I am pious Aeneas, who carry with me in my fleet the household gods snatched from the enemy, my fame is known beyond the heavens.

Italiam quaero patriam et genus ab Iove summo.

I seek Italy, my homeland, and my ancestry from highest Jove.

Bis denis Phrygium conscendi navibus aequor, matre dea monstrante viam, data fata secutus; vix septem convolsae undis Euroque supersunt.

With twice ten ships I embarked upon the Phrygian sea, my goddess mother showing the way, following the fates given to me; scarcely seven survive, shattered by the waves and the East Wind.

Ipse ignotus, egens, Libyae deserta peragro, Europa atque Asia pulsus.'

I myself, unknown and needy, wander the deserts of Libya, driven from Europe and Asia."

Nec plura querentem passa Venus medio sic interfata dolore est:

And Venus, not enduring him to complain further, interrupted him in the midst of his grief, saying thus:

'Quisquis es, haud, credo, invisus caelestibus auras vitalis carpis, Tyriam qui adveneris urbem.

"Whoever you are, not hated by the heavenly powers, I believe, do you draw the breath of life," you draw the breath of life, who have arrived at the Tyrian city.

Perge modo, atque hinc te reginae ad limina perfer, Namque tibi reduces socios classemque relatam nuntio, et in tutum versis aquilonibus actam, ni frustra augurium vani docuere parentes.

Only go forward, and from here betake yourself to the threshold of the queen, For I announce to you that your companions are restored and your fleet brought back, and driven into safety by the shifted north winds, unless my mistaken parents taught me augury in vain.

Aspice bis senos laetantis agmine cycnos, aetheria quos lapsa plaga Iovis ales aperto turbabat caelo; nunc terras ordine longo aut capere, aut captas iam despectare videntur: ut reduces illi ludunt stridentibus alis, et coetu cinxere polum, cantusque dedere, haud aliter puppesque tuae pubesque tuorum aut portum tenet aut pleno subit ostia velo.

See twice six swans rejoicing in a flock, whom the bird of Jove, having swooped down from the ethereal region, was scattering in the open sky; now in a long line they are seen either to take their ground, or to look down upon the places already taken: just as they, restored, play with whirring wings, and have encircled the sky in a company, and given forth songs, not otherwise do both your ships and the youth of your people either hold the harbor or enter its mouth under full sail.

Perge modo, et, qua te ducit via, dirige gressum.'

Only go forward, and, where the way leads you, direct your step."

Dixit, et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, ambrosiaeque comae divinum vertice odorem spiravere, pedes vestis defluxit ad imos, et vera incessu patuit dea.

She spoke, and turning away she gleamed with her rosy neck, and her ambrosial hair breathed a divine fragrance from her head, her robe flowed down to the bottom of her feet, and by her gait she was revealed a true goddess.

Ille ubi matrem adgnovit, tali fugientem est voce secutus: 'Quid natum totiens, crudelis tu quoque, falsis iudis imaginibus?

When he recognized his mother, he followed her as she fled with such words: "Why do you, cruel too, mock your son so often with false phantoms?

Cur dextrae iungere dextram non datur, ac veras audire et reddere voces?'

Why is it not granted to join right hand to right hand, and to hear and return true words?"

Talibus incusat, gressumque ad moenia tendit: at Venus obscuro gradientes aere saepsit, et multo nebulae circum dea fudit amictu, cernere ne quis eos, neu quis contingere posset, molirive moram, aut veniendi poscere causas.

With such words he reproaches her, and directs his step toward the walls; but Venus enclosed them with a dark mist as they walked, and the goddess poured a thick mantle of cloud around them, lest anyone should be able to see them, or anyone to touch them, or devise delay, or demand the reasons for your coming.

Ipsa Paphum sublimis abit, sedesque revisit laeta suas, ubi templum illi, centumque Sabaeo ture calent arae, sertisque recentibus halant.

She herself departs sublime to Paphos, and revisits her seats joyful, where she has a temple, and a hundred altars glow with Sabaean incense, and breathe with fresh garlands.

Corripuere viam interea, qua semita monstrat.

Meanwhile, they speed on their way, where the path points.

Iamque ascendebant collem, qui plurimus urbi imminet, adversasque adspectat desuper arces.

And now they were climbing the hill, which looms large over the city and looks down from above upon the opposing towers.

Miratur molem Aeneas, magalia quondam, miratur portas strepitumque et strata viarum.

Aeneas marvels at the massive structure, once huts, he marvels at the gates, the din, and the paved streets.

Instant ardentes Tyrii pars ducere muros, molirique arcem et manibus subvolvere saxa, pars optare locum tecto et concludere sulco.

Eagerly the Tyrians press on: some to build the walls, and to construct the citadel, and roll up stones with their hands; others to choose a site for a dwelling and enclose it with a trench.

[Iura magistratusque legunt sanctumque senatum;] hic portus alii effodiunt; hic alta theatris fundamenta locant alii, immanisque columnas rupibus excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris.

[They choose laws and magistrates, and a sacred senate;] here some are digging out harbors; there others are laying down deep foundations for theaters, and are carving massive columns from the rocks, lofty decorations for future stages.

Qualis apes aestate nova per florea rura exercet sub sole labor, cum gentis adultos educunt fetus, aut cum liquentia mella stipant et dulci distendunt nectare cellas, aut onera accipiunt venientum, aut agmine facto ignavom fucos pecus a praesepibus arcent: fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella.

Just like the labor that busies bees in early summer through the flowery countryside under the sun, when they lead forth the full-grown young of their race, or when they pack the liquid honey and stretch the cells with sweet nectar, or receive the burdens of those arriving, or forming a column drive the drones, a lazy herd, away from the hives: the work glows, and the fragrant honey smells of thyme.

'O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!'

"O fortunate ones, whose walls are already rising!"

Aeneas ait, et fastigia suspicit urbis.

Aeneas says, and looks up at the heights of the city.

Infert se saeptus nebula, mirabile dictu, per medios, miscetque viris, neque cernitur ulli.

He moves forward, enclosed in a cloud, wondrous to tell, through the midst, and mingles with the men, and is not seen by anyone.

Lucus in urbe fuit media, laetissimus umbra, quo primum iactati undis et turbine Poeni effodere loco signum, quod regia Iuno monstrarat, caput acris equi; sic nam fore bello egregiam et facilem victu per saecula gentem.

There was a grove in the middle of the city, most rich in shade, where first the Carthaginians, tossed by the waves and the whirlwind, dug up the sign in that place, which royal Juno had shown, the head of a fierce horse; for thus they would be in war a nation distinguished and wealthy in sustenance through the ages.

Hic templum Iunoni ingens Sidonia Dido condebat, donis opulentum et numine divae, aerea cui gradibus surgebant limina, nexaeque aere trabes, foribus cardo stridebat aenis.

Here Sidonian Dido was building a huge temple to Juno, rich with gifts and the divine presence of the goddess, whose bronze thresholds rose on steps, and bound with bronze were the beams, and the hinge creaked on bronze doors.

Hoc primum in luco nova res oblata timorem leniit, hic primum Aeneas sperare salutem ausus, et adflictis melius confidere rebus.

In this grove first, a strange sight presented to him calmed his fear; here first Aeneas dared to hope for safety and to have better confidence in his shattered fortunes.

Namque sub ingenti lustrat dum singula templo, reginam opperiens, dum, quae fortuna sit urbi, artificumque manus inter se operumque laborem miratur, videt Iliacas ex ordine pugnas, bellaque iam fama totum volgata per orbem, Atridas, Priamumque, et saevum ambobus Achillem.

For while he surveys each object beneath the huge temple, awaiting the queen, while he marvels at what the city's fortune is, the hands of the artists among themselves, and the labor of their works, he sees the Trojan battles in their order, and the wars now made common by fame throughout the whole world, the sons of Atreus, and Priam, and Achilles fierce to both.

Constitit, et lacrimans, 'Quis iam locus' inquit 'Achate, quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?

He stood, and weeping, said, "What place now, Achates, what region on earth is not full of our hardships?

En Priamus!

Look, Priam!

Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi; sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.

Even here praise has its own rewards; there are tears for things, and mortal sorrows touch the mind.

Solve metus; feret haec aliquam tibi fama salutem.'

Dismiss your fears; this fame will bring you some safety."

Sic ait, atque animum pictura pascit inani, multa gemens, largoque umectat flumine voltum.

So he spoke, and fed his soul on the empty picture, groaning deeply, and wet his face with a flood of tears.

Namque videbat, uti bellantes Pergama circum hac fugerent Graii, premeret Troiana iuventus, hac Phryges, instaret curru cristatus Achilles.

For he saw how, warring around Troy, here the Greeks fled, pursued by the Trojan youth; there the Phrygians fled, pressed hard by crested Achilles in his chariot.

Nec procul hinc Rhesi niveis tentoria velis adgnoscit lacrimans, primo quae prodita somno Tydides multa vastabat caede cruentus, ardentisque avertit equos in castra, prius quam pabula gustassent Troiae Xanthumque bibissent.

Not far from here, weeping, he recognized the tents of Rhesus with their snow-white sails, which, betrayed in their first sleep, the bloody son of Tydeus laid waste with much slaughter, and drove the fiery horses away into the camp, before they could taste the pastures of Troy or drink from the Xanthus.

Parte alia fugiens amissis Troilus armis, infelix puer atque impar congressus Achilli, fertur equis, curruque haeret resupinus inani, lora tenens tamen; huic cervixque comaeque trahuntur per terram, et versa pulvis inscribitur hasta.

In another part, Troilus, fleeing with his weapons lost, an unhappy boy and unequally matched in conflict with Achilles, is carried along by his horses, and clings fallen backward to his empty chariot, still holding the reins; his neck and hair are dragged along the ground, and the dust is tracked by his inverted spear.

Interea ad templum non aequae Palladis ibant crinibus Iliades passis peplumque ferebant, suppliciter tristes et tunsae pectora palmis; diva solo fixos oculos aversa tenebat.

Meanwhile, the Trojan women were going to the temple of unfriendly Pallas with disheveled hair, and were carrying the sacred robe, humbly sad and beating their breasts with their hands; the goddess, turned away, kept her eyes fixed on the ground.

Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora muros, exanimumque auro corpus vendebat Achilles.

Three times Achilles had dragged Hector around the walls of Troy, and was now selling the lifeless body for gold.

Tum vero ingentem gemitum dat pectore ab imo, ut spolia, ut currus, utque ipsum corpus amici, tendentemque manus Priamum conspexit inermis.

Then indeed he gave a great groan from the bottom of his chest, as he beheld the spoils, the chariot, and the very body of his friend, and Priam stretching forth his defenseless hands.

Se quoque principibus permixtum adgnovit Achivis, Eoasque acies et nigri Memnonis arma.

He recognized himself too, mingled with the Achaean chiefs, and the Eastern ranks and the armor of black Memnon.

Ducit Amazonidum lunatis agmina peltis Penthesilea furens, mediisque in milibus ardet, aurea subnectens exsertae cingula mammae, bellatrix, audetque viris concurrere virgo.

Penthesilea leads her columns of Amazons with crescent-shaped shields raging, and blazes in the midst of thousands, fastening a golden belt beneath her exposed breast, a warrior maid, who dares to clash with men.

Haec dum Dardanio Aeneae miranda videntur, dum stupet, obtutuque haeret defixus in uno, regina ad templum, forma pulcherrima Dido, incessit magna iuvenum stipante caterva.

While these wondrous sights are seen by Dardanian Aeneas, while he is amazed, and hangs fixed in one unmoving gaze, the queen, Dido, most beautiful in form, moved toward the temple with a great crowd of young men thronging around her.

Qualis in Eurotae ripis aut per iuga Cynthi exercet Diana choros, quam mille secutae hinc atque hinc glomerantur oreades; illa pharetram fert umero, gradiensque deas supereminet omnis: Latonae tacitum pertemptant gaudia pectus: talis erat Dido, talem se laeta ferebat per medios, instans operi regnisque futuris.

Just as Diana leads her dances on the banks of Eurotas or along the ridges of Cynthus, whom a thousand mountain nymphs follow and gather on this side and that; she carries a quiver on her shoulder, and as she walks, she towers above all the other goddesses: joys thrill the silent heart of Latona: such was Dido, so she bore herself joyfully through their midst, urging on the work and her rising kingdom.

Tum foribus divae, media testudine templi, saepta armis, solioque alte subnixa resedit.

Then, at the gates of the goddess, beneath the central dome of the temple, hedged in by arms and resting high upon a throne, she took her seat.

Iura dabat legesque viris, operumque laborem partibus aequabat iustis, aut sorte trahebat: cum subito Aeneas concursu accedere magno Anthea Sergestumque videt fortemque Cloanthum, Teucrorumque alios, ater quos aequore turbo dispulerat penitusque alias avexerat oras.

She was giving laws and ordinances to her people, and distributing the labor of their tasks in equal shares, or assigning them by lot: when suddenly Aeneas sees approaching in a vast crowd Antheus, Sergestus, and brave Cloanthus, and others of the Trojans, whom a black storm at sea had scattered and driven far away to other shores.

Obstipuit simul ipse simul perculsus Achates laetitiaque metuque; avidi coniungere dextras ardebant; sed res animos incognita turbat.

He was stunned, and at the same moment Achates was struck with both joy and fear; eagerly they burned to join right hands; but the unknown situation troubles their minds.

Dissimulant, et nube cava speculantur amicti, quae fortuna viris, classem quo litore linquant, quid veniant; cunctis nam lecti navibus ibant, orantes veniam, et templum clamore petebant.

They keep hidden, and wrapped in the hollow cloud, they watch to see what fortune the men have, on what shore they leave their fleet, why they come; for chosen from all the ships they were going, begging for favor, and were making for the temple with a shout.

Postquam introgressi et coram data copia fandi, axumus Ilioneus placido sic pectore coepit: 'O Regina, novam cui condere Iuppiter urbem iustitiaque dedit gentis frenare superbas, Troes te miseri, ventis maria omnia vecti, oramus, prohibe infandos a navibus ignis, parce pio generi, et propius res aspice nostras.

After they entered and opportunity of speaking openly was granted, greatest Ilioneus thus began with a calm heart: "O Queen, to whom Jupiter has granted to found a new city and to restrain proud nations with justice, we wretched Trojans, carried by the winds across every sea, beseech you: keep the unspeakable fires away from our ships, spare a pious race, and look more closely upon our affairs.

Non nos aut ferro Libycos populare Penatis venimus, aut raptas ad litora vertere praedas; non ea vis animo, nec tanta superbia victis.

We have not come either to devastate Libyan homes with the sword or to drive stolen booty to the shores; such violence is not in our minds, nor is there such great pride in the vanquished.

Est locus, Hesperiam Grai cognomine dicunt, terra antiqua, potens armis atque ubere glaebae; Oenotri coluere viri; nunc fama minores Italiam dixisse ducis de nomine gentem.

There is a place, the Greeks call it Hesperia by name, an ancient land, powerful in arms and in the fertility of its soil; Oenotrian men cultivated it; now the rumor is that their descendants have called the nation Italy from the name of their leader.

Hic cursus fuit: cum subito adsurgens fluctu nimbosus Orion in vada caeca tulit, penitusque procacibus austris perque undas, superante salo, perque invia saxa dispulit; huc pauci vestris adnavimus oris.

This was our course: when suddenly, rising from the wave, stormy Orion carried us onto blind shoals, and completely with insolent south winds both through the waves, with the sea overcoming us, and through pathless rocks scattered us; hither a few of us have drifted to your shores.

Quod genus hoc hominum?

What race of men is this?

Quaeve hunc tam barbara morem permittit patria?

Or what country is so barbarous as to permit this custom?

Hospitio prohibemur harenae; bella cient, primaque vetant consistere terra.

We are prohibited from the hospitality of the sand; they stir up wars, and forbid us to stand on the edge of the land."

Si genus humanum et mortalia temnitis arma at sperate deos memores fandi atque nefandi.

If you despise the human race and mortal arms, yet expect that the gods are mindful of right and wrong.

'Rex erat Aeneas nobis, quo iustior alter, nec pietate fuit, nec bello maior et armis.

"Aeneas was our king, than whom another more just was neither in piety, nor greater in war and arms.

Quem si fata virum servant, si vescitur aura aetheria, neque adhuc crudelibus occubat umbris, non metus; officio nec te certasse priorem poeniteat.

If the fates preserve this man, if he feeds upon the ethereal air, and does not yet lie among the cruel shades, there is no fear; nor should it repent you to have striven to be first in kindness.

Sunt et Siculis regionibus urbes arvaque, Troianoque a sanguine clarus Acestes.

There are also cities in the Sicilian regions and lands, and renowned Acestes from Trojan blood.

Quassatam ventis liceat subducere classem, et silvis aptare trabes et stringere remos: si datur Italiam, sociis et rege recepto, tendere, ut Italiam laeti Latiumque petamus; sin absumpta salus, et te, pater optume Teucrum, pontus habet Lybiae, nec spes iam restat Iuli, at freta Sicaniae saltem sedesque paratas, unde huc advecti, regemque petamus Acesten.'

Let it be permitted to draw up our fleet shattered by the winds, and to fashion planks from the forests and trim oars: so that if it is granted to steer for Italy, our companions and king recovered, we may joyfully seek Italy and Latium; but if our safety is destroyed, and the sea of Libya holds you, O best father of the Trojans, and no hope of Iulus now remains, yet at least let us seek the straits of Sicily and the prepared abodes, from where we were carried hither, and king Acestes."

Talibus Ilioneus; cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae.

With such words spoke Ilioneus; all the Trojans at once shouted assent with their voices.

Tum breviter Dido, voltum demissa, profatur: 'Solvite corde metum, Teucri, secludite curas.

Then briefly Dido, with downcast countenance, speaks: "Release fear from your hearts, Trojans, shut out your cares.

Res dura et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late finis custode tueri.

Hard necessity and the novelty of my kingdom compel me to devise such things, and to protect my borders far and wide with a guard.

Quis genus Aeneadum, quis Troiae nesciat urbem, virtutesque virosque, aut tanti incendia belli?

Who could be ignorant of the race of the Aeneadae, who of the city of Troy, and its virtues and its men, or the fires of so great a war?

Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Poeni, nec tam aversus equos Tyria Sol iungit ab urbe.

We Carthaginians do not possess minds so unfeeling, Nor does the Sun yoke his horses so far away from the Tyrian city.

Seu vos Hesperiam magnam Saturniaque arva, sive Erycis finis regemque optatis Acesten, auxilio tutos dimittam, opibusque iuvabo.

Whether you choose great Hesperia and the Saturnian fields, or the territories of Eryx and king Acestes, I will send you away safe with an escort, and aid you with my wealth.

Voltis et his mecum pariter considere regnis; urbem quam statuo vestra est, subducite navis; Tros Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine agetur.

Would you even settle on equal terms with me in this kingdom? The city which I am establishing is yours; draw up your ships; Trojan and Tyrian shall be treated by me with no distinction.

Atque utinam rex ipse Noto compulsus eodem adforet Aeneas!

And would that your king Aeneas himself, driven by the same North wind, were here!

Equidem per litora certos dimittam et Libyae lustrare extrema iubebo, si quibus eiectus silvis aut urbibus errat.'

Indeed, I will send reliable men along the shores and order them to search the outermost parts of Libya, in case he wanders, cast ashore, in any woods or towns."

His animum arrecti dictis et fortis Achates et pater Aeneas iamdudum erumpere nubem ardebant.

Their spirits stirred by these words, both brave Achates and father Aeneas had long been burning to break through the cloud. They were burning.

Prior Aenean compellat Achates: 'Nate dea, quae nunc animo sententia surgit?

Achates addresses Aeneas first: "Goddess-born, what thought now rises in your mind?

omnia tuta vides, classem sociosque receptos.

You see all is safe, the fleet and our comrades recovered.

Unus abest, medio in fluctu quem vidimus ipsi submersum; dictis respondent cetera matris.'

Only one is missing, whom we ourselves saw submerged in the midst of the waves; all else responds to your mother's words."

Vix ea fatus erat, cum circumfusa repente scindit se nubes et in aethera purgat apertum.

Scarcely had he spoken these things, when the surrounding cloud suddenly parts and clears into the open air.

Restitit Aeneas claraque in luce refulsit, os umerosque deo similis; namque ipsa decoram caesariem nato genetrix lumenque iuventae purpureum et laetos oculis adflarat honores: quale manus addunt ebori decus, aut ubi flavo argentum Pariusve lapis circumdatur auro.

Aeneas stood there and shone in the bright light, like a god in face and shoulders; for his mother herself had breathed beautiful hair upon her son, and the radiant glow of youth, and joyful charms into his eyes: such beauty as hands impart to ivory, or when [silver or Parian marble is enclosed] in yellow [gold] silver or Parian marble is enclosed in gold.

Tum sic reginam adloquitur, cunctisque repente improvisus ait: 'Coram, quem quaeritis, adsum, Troius Aeneas, Lybicis ereptus ab undis.

Then he addresses the queen thus, and suddenly to all unexpectedly he says: "In person, I whom you seek am here, Trojan Aeneas, snatched from the Libyan waves.

O sola infandos Troiae miserata labores, quae nos, reliquias Danaum, terraeque marisque omnibus exhaustos iam casibus, omnium egenos, urbe, domo, socias, grates persolvere dignas non opis est nostrae, Dido, nec quicquid ubique est gentis Dardaniae, magnum quae sparsa per orbem.

O you alone who have pitied the unspeakable sorrows of Troy, who associate us—the remnants left by the Greeks, exhausted already by every misfortune of land and sea, destitute of all things— in your city and home, to render worthy thanks is not within our power, Dido, nor whatever of the Dardanian race exists anywhere, scattered through the great world.

Di tibi, si qua pios respectant numina, si quid usquam iustitia est et mens sibi conscia recti, praemia digna ferant.

May the gods—if any divine powers regard the pious, if justice is anything anywhere, and a mind conscious of its own right— bring you worthy rewards.

Quae te tam laeta tulerunt saecula?

What ages were so blessed as to bear you?

Qui tanti talem genuere parentes?

What noble parents gave birth to such a child?

In freta dum fluvii current, dum montibus umbrae lustrabunt convexa, polus dum sidera pascet, semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, quae me cumque vocant terrae.'

While rivers run into the seas, while shadows traverse the hollows of the mountains, while the sky feeds the stars, your honor and name and praise shall ever remain, whatever lands call me."

Sic fatus, amicum Ilionea petit dextra, laevaque Serestum, post alios, fortemque Gyan fortemque Cloanthum.

Thus having spoken, he seeks his friend Ilioneus with his right hand, and Serestus with his left, afterwards others, both the brave Gyas and the brave Cloanthus.

Obstipuit primo aspectu Sidonia Dido, casu deinde viri tanto, et sic ore locuta est: 'Quis te, nate dea, per tanta pericula casus insequitur?

Sidonian Dido was amazed at the first sight, then by the man's great misfortune, and thus she spoke aloud: 'What fate, goddess-born, through such great perils pursues you?

Quae vis immanibus applicat oris?

What power drives you to these savage shores?

Tune ille Aeneas, quem Dardanio Anchisae alma Venus Phrygii genuit Simoentis ad undam?

Are you that Aeneas, whom to Dardanian Anchises nurturing Venus bore by the wave of the Phrygian Simois?

Atque equidem Teucrum memini Sidona venire finibus expulsum patriis, nova regna petentem auxilio Beli; genitor tum Belus opimam vastabat Cyprum, et victor dicione tenebat.

And indeed I remember Teucer coming to Sidon, driven from his native borders, seeking new kingdoms by the aid of Belus; at that time my father Belus was devastating rich Cyprus, and as victor held it under his sway.

Tempore iam ex illo casus mihi cognitus urbis Troianae nomenque tuum regesque Pelasgi.

Already from that time the fall of the city of Troy has been known to me, along with your name, and the Pelasgian kings.

Ipse hostis Teucros insigni laude ferebat, seque ortum antiqua Teucrorum ab stirpe volebat.

The enemy himself used to extol the Teucrians with distinguished praise, and claimed that he was sprung from the ancient stock of the Teucrians.

Quare agite, O tectis, iuvenes, succedite nostris.

Therefore come, O young men, and enter our halls.

Me quoque per multos similis fortuna labores iactatam hac demum voluit consistere terra.

A similar fortune has willed that I too, tossed through many labors, should at last find rest in this land.

Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco.'

Not ignorant of evil, I learn to aid the wretched.'

Sic memorat; simul Aenean in regia ducit tecta, simul divom templis indicit honorem.

Thus she speaks; at the same time she leads Aeneas into the royal halls, and at once proclaims an offering at the temples of the gods.

Nec minus interea sociis ad litora mittit viginti tauros, magnorum horrentia centum terga suum, pinguis centum cum matribus agnos, munera laetitiamque dii.

Meanwhile, no less, she sends to his comrades at the shores twenty bulls, a hundred bristling backs of great swine, and a hundred fat lambs with their mothers, as gifts and joy for the day.

At domus interior regali splendida luxu instruitur, mediisque parant convivia tectis: arte laboratae vestes ostroque superbo, ingens argentum mensis, caelataque in auro fortia facta patrum, series longissima rerum per tot ducta viros antiqua ab origine gentis.

But the interior of the house is splendidly furnished with royal luxury and they prepare banquets in the midst of the halls: garments worked with art and proud purple, massive silver on the tables, and chased in gold the brave deeds of her ancestors, a very long sequence of achievements traced through so many heroes from the ancient origin of the race.

Aeneas (neque enim patrius consistere mentem passus amor) rapidum ad navis praemittit Achaten, Ascanio ferat haec, ipsumque ad moenia ducat; omnis in Ascanio cari stat cura parentis.

Aeneas (for a father's love did not suffer his mind to rest) sends swift Achates ahead to the ships, to carry this news to Ascanius, and to lead him to the city walls; all the care of the fond parent centers on Ascanius.

Munera praeterea, Iliacis erepta ruinis, ferre iubet, pallam signis auroque rigentem, et circumtextum croceo velamen acantho, ornatus Argivae Helenae, quos illa Mycenis, Pergama cum peteret inconcessosque hymenaeos, extulerat, matris Ledae mirabile donum: praeterea sceptrum, Ilione quod gesserat olim, maxima natarum Priami, colloque monile bacatum, et duplicem gemmis auroque coronam.

Moreover, he bids him bring gifts rescued from the Trojan ruins, a cloak stiff with figures and gold, and a veil bordered with yellow acanthus, the adornments of Argive Helen, which she from Mycenae, when she was seeking Troy and her forbidden marriage, had brought away, the wondrous gift of her mother Leda: furthermore, the scepter which Ilione once had borne, the eldest of the daughters of Priam, and a beaded necklace for the neck, and a crown double with gems and gold.

Haec celerans ita ad naves tendebat Achates.

Hastening these things, Achates thus made his way to the ships.

At Cytherea novas artes, nova pectore versat Consilia, ut faciem mutatus et ora Cupido pro dulci Ascanio veniat, donisque furentem incendat reginam, atque ossibus implicet ignem; quippe domum timet ambiguam Tyriosque bilinguis; urit atrox Iuno, et sub noctem cura recursat.

But the Cytherean goddess turns new arts, new designs in her heart, so that Cupid, changed in form and features, may come instead of sweet Ascanius, and by his gifts inflame the raging queen, and entwine the fire in her very bones; for in truth she fears the treacherous house and the double-tongued Tyrians; relentless Juno burns her, and at nightfall her anxiety returns.

Ergo his aligerum dictis adfatur Amorem:

Therefore she addresses winged Love with these words:

'Nate, meae vires, mea magna potentia solus, nate, patris summi qui tela Typhoia temnis, ad te confugio et supplex tua numina posco.

'O son, my strength, who alone art my great power, O son, who scornest the Typhoean darts of the supreme father, To you I flee for refuge, and as a suppliant I implore your divine power.

Frater ut Aeneas pelago tuus omnia circum litora iactetur odiis Iunonis iniquae, nota tibi, et nostro doluisti saepe dolore.

How your brother Aeneas is tossed about on the sea around all shores by the hatred of unjust Juno, is well known to you, and you have often grieved with our grief.

Hunc Phoenissa tenet Dido blandisque moratur vocibus; et vereor, quo se Iunonia vertant hospitia; haud tanto cessabit cardine rerum.

Phoenician Dido holds him and delays him with flattering words; and I fear where this Junonian hospitality may turn; she will not be idle at such a critical turning point of affairs.

Quocirca capere ante dolis et cingere flamma reginam meditor, ne quo se numine mutet, sed magno Aeneae mecum teneatur amore.

Therefore, I plan to capture the queen beforehand with deceits and encircle her with flame, lest she change through any divine influence, but rather be held with me by a great love for Aeneas.

Qua facere id possis, nostram nunc accipe mentem.

How you can do this, now hear my plan.

Regius accitu cari genitoris ad urbem Sidoniam puer ire parat, mea maxima cura, dona ferens, pelago et flammis restantia Troiae: hunc ego sopitum somno super alta Cythera aut super Idalium sacrata sede recondam, ne qua scire dolos mediusve occurrere possit.

At the summons of his dear father, the royal boy, my greatest care, prepares to go to the Sidonian city, bearing gifts that remain from the sea and the flames of Troy: him, lulled in sleep, over high Cythera or over Idalium in a sacred shrine I will hide, lest he be able to learn of our deceits or interrupt them midway.

Tu faciem illius noctem non amplius unam falle dolo, et notos pueri puer indue voltus, ut, cum te gremio accipiet laetissima Dido regalis inter mensas laticemque Lyaeum, cum dabit amplexus atque oscula dulcia figet, occultum inspires ignem fallasque veneno.'

For no more than a single night, craftily counterfeit his appearance, and, a boy yourself, assume the well-known features of the boy, so that, when Dido, most joyful, takes you into her lap amidst the royal tables and the liquid of Lyaeus (wine), when she gives you embraces and imprints sweet kisses, you may breathe into her a hidden fire and beguile her with poison."

Paret Amor dictis carae genetricis, et alas exuit, et gressu gaudens incedit Iuli.

Love obeys the words of his dear mother, and puts off his wings, and walks rejoicing in the step of Iulus.

At Venus Ascanio placidam per membra quietem inrigat, et fotum gremio dea tollit in altos Idaliae lucos, ubi mollis amaracus illum floribus et dulci adspirans complectitur umbra.

But Venus pours a peaceful rest through the limbs of Ascanius moistens, and the goddess, cherishing him in her bosom, lifts him into the high groves of Idalia, where soft marjoram embraces him with flowers and breathing sweet shade.

Iamque ibat dicto parens et dona Cupido regia portabat Tyriis, duce laetus Achate.

And now Cupid was on his way, obeying the word, and carrying the royal gifts for the Tyrians, happy with Achates as his guide.

Cum venit, aulaeis iam se regina superbis aurea composuit sponda mediamque locavit.

When he arrives, the queen has already, amid proud draperies, settled herself on a golden couch and taken her place in the center.

Iam pater Aeneas et iam Troiana iuventus conveniunt, stratoque super discumbitur ostro.

Now father Aeneas and now the Trojan youth assemble, and recline upon the spread purple.

Dant famuli manibus lymphas, Cereremque canistris expediunt, tonsisque ferunt mantelia villis.

Servants pour water on their hands, and serve bread from baskets, and bring napkins with close-shorn nap.

Quinquaginta intus famulae, quibus ordine longam cura penum struere, et flammis adolere Penatis; centum aliae totidemque pares aetate ministri, qui dapibus mensas onerent et pocula ponant.

Within are fifty handmaids, whose task it is to arrange the long line of provisions in order, and to honor the household gods with fires; a hundred others, and as many male servants of equal age, to load the tables with feasts and set the cups.

Nec non et Tyrii per limina laeta frequentes convenere, toris iussi discumbere pictis.

Likewise the Tyrians also have gathered in crowds through the festive thresholds, bidden to recline on the embroidered couches.

Mirantur dona Aeneae, mirantur Iulum flagrantisque dei voltus simulataque verba, [pallamque et pictum croceo velamen acantho.]

They marvel at the gifts of Aeneas, they marvel at Iulus and the glowing face of the god and his feigned words, [and the robe and the veil embroidered with yellow acanthus.]

Praecipue infelix, pesti devota futurae, expleri mentem nequit ardescitque tuendo Phoenissa, et pariter puero donisque movetur.

Above all the unhappy Phoenician woman, doomed to a future plague, cannot satisfy her soul and catches fire by gazing, and is equally moved by the boy and by the gifts.

Ille ubi complexu Aeneae colloque pependit et magnum falsi implevit genitoris amorem, reginam petit haec oculis, haec pectore toto haeret et interdum gremio fovet, inscia Dido, insidat quantus miserae deus; at memor ille matris Acidaliae paulatim abolere Sychaeum incipit, et vivo temptat praevertere amore iam pridem resides animos desuetaque corda.

He, when he had hung in the embrace and on the neck of Aeneas and had satisfied the great love of his deceived father, She seeks the queen with her eyes, she with her whole heart clings to him and at times fondles him in her lap, Dido ignorant of how great a god settles upon her, wretched one; but he, mindful of his Acidalian mother, little by little begins to efface Sychaeus and tries to preoccupy with a living love her long-dormant spirits and unaccustomed heart.

Postquam prima quies epulis, mensaeque remotae, crateras magnos statuunt et vina coronant.

After the first lull in the feasting, and the tables were removed, they set down great bowls and crown the wine.

Fit strepitus tectis, vocemque per ampla volutant atria; dependent lychni laquearibus aureis incensi, et noctem flammis funalia vincunt.

A roar arises in the halls, and they roll their voices through the wide atrium; burning lamps hang from the golden paneled ceilings and torches conquer the night with their flames.

Hic regina gravem gemmis auroque poposcit implevitque mero pateram, quam Belus et omnes a Belo soliti; tum facta silentia tectis: 'Iuppiter, hospitibus nam te dare iura loquuntur, hunc laetum Tyriisque diem Troiaque profectis esse velis, nostrosque huius meminisse minores.

Here the queen called for a bowl, heavy with gems and gold, and filled it with unmixed wine, which Belus and all descended from Belus were accustomed to use; then silence was made in the halls: "Jupiter, for they say you give laws to guests, grant that this day be joyful for both the Tyrians and those set out from Troy, and that our descendants may remember it.

Adsit laetitiae Bacchus dator, et bona Iuno; et vos, O, coetum, Tyrii, celebrate faventes.'

May Bacchus, the giver of joy, be present, and good Juno; and you, O Tyrians, celebrate this gathering with favor."

Dixit, et in mensam laticum libavit honorem, primaque, libato, summo tenus attigit ore, tum Bitiae dedit increpitans; ille impiger hausit spumantem pateram, et pleno se proluit auro post alii proceres.

She spoke, and poured an offering of wine upon the table, and after the libation, she was the first to touch it with the tip of her lips, then challenging, she gave it to Bitias; he quickly drained the foaming bowl, and drenched himself from the full gold afterward the other nobles.

Cithara crinitus Iopas personat aurata, docuit quem maximus Atlas.

Long-haired Iopas plays on his golden lyre, whom greatest Atlas taught.

Hic canit errantem lunam solisque labores; unde hominum genus et pecudes; unde imber et ignes; Arcturum pluviasque Hyadas geminosque Triones; quid tantum Oceano properent se tinguere soles hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.

Here he sings of the wandering moon and the labors of the sun; whence came the race of men and beasts; whence the rain and fires; of Arcturus and the rainy Hyades, and the twin Bears; why the winter suns hasten so much to dip themselves in the Ocean, or what delay stands in the way of the slow-moving nights.

Ingeminant plausu Tyrii, Troesque sequuntur.

The Tyrians redouble their applause, and the Trojans follow.

Nec non et vario noctem sermone trahebat infelix Dido, longumque bibebat amorem, multa super Priamo rogitans, super Hectore multa; nunc quibus Aurorae venisset filius armis, nunc quales Diomedis equi, nunc quantus Achilles.

No less did the unhappy Dido prolong the night with varied talk, and she drank deep of love, asking much about Priam, and much about Hector; now in what armor the son of the Dawn had come, now what kind of horses Diomedes had, now how great was Achilles.

'Immo age, et a prima dic, hospes, origine nobis insidias,' inquit, 'Danaum, casusque tuorum, erroresque tuos; nam te iam septima portat omnibus errantem terris et fluctibus aestas.'

"Nay, come," she says, "and tell us, guest, from the very first beginning the stratagems of the Greeks, and the misfortunes of your people, and your own wanderings; for now the seventh summer bears you, wandering over every land and sea."