LIBER X

BOOK X

PANDITUR interea domus omnipotentis Olympi, conciliumque vocat divom pater atque hominum rex sideream in sedem, terras unde arduus omnis castraque Dardanidum adspectat populosque Latinos.

Meanwhile, the palace of all-powerful Olympus is opened, and the father of the gods and king of men calls a council to his starry seat, from where, exalted, he looks down upon all lands and the camp of the Trojans and the Latin peoples.

Considunt tectis bipatentibus, incipit ipse: 'Caelicolae magni, quianam sententia vobis versa retro tantumque animis certatis iniquis?

They take their seats in the halls with double doors, and he himself begins: 'Great sky-dwellers, why is your purpose turned backward, and why do you strive so much with hostile minds?

Abnueram bello Italiam concurrere Teucris.

I had forbidden Italy to clash with the Trojans in war.

Quae contra vetitum discordia?

What is this discord against my prohibition?

Quis metus aut hos aut hos arma sequi ferrumque lacessere suasit?

What fear has persuaded either these or those to take up arms and provoke the sword?

Adveniet iustum pugnae, ne arcessite, tempus, cum fera Karthago Romanis arcibus olim exitium magnum atque Alpes immittet apertas: tum certare odiis, tum res rapuisse licebit.

The rightful time for battle will come—do not hasten it— when fierce Carthage shall one day let loose upon the Roman citadels great destruction, and send the opened Alps against them: then it will be lawful to contend in hatred, then to plunder.

Nunc sinite et placitum laeti componite foedus.'

Now let it be, and gladly conclude the agreed covenant.'

Iuppiter haec paucis; at non Venus aurea contra pauca refert: 'O pater, O hominum rerumque aeterna potestas!

Jupiter said this in few words; but golden Venus in response replied not with few: 'O father, O eternal power of men and human affairs!

Namque aliud quid sit, quod iam implorare queamus?

For what else can there be that we might now implore?

Cernis ut insultent Rutulli Turnusque [feratur per medios insignis equis tumidusque] secundo Marte ruat?

You see how the Rutulians insult, and how Turnus [is carried through their midst, conspicuous with his horses, and swollen] with favorable war, rushes on?

Non clausa tegunt iam moenia Teucros: quin intra portas atque ipsis proelia miscent aggeribus moerorum et inundant sanguine fossas.

No longer do closed walls protect the Trojans; nay, within the gates and on the very mounds of the walls they join battle, and flood the trenches with blood.

Aeneas ignarus abest.

Aeneas is away, unaware.

Numquamne levari obsidione sines?

Will they never be allowed to be relieved Will you allow them to be besieged?

Muris iterum imminet hostis nascentis Troiae [nec non exercitus alter;] atque iterum in Teucros Aetolis surgit ab Arpis Tydides.

Again the enemy threatens the walls, of a rising Troy [and also another army;] and again from Aetolian Arpi rises against the Teucrians Diomedes.

Equidem credo, mea volnera restant et tua progenies mortalia demoror arma.

Indeed I believe my own wounds still await me, and I, your offspring, delay mortal weapons.

Si sine pace tua atque invito numine Troes Italiam petiere, luant peccata neque illos iuveris auxilio; sin tot responsa secuti, quae superi manesque dabant: cur nunc tua quisquam vertere iussa potest aut cur nova condere fata?

If without your leave and against your divine will the Trojans have sought Italy, let them pay for their sins, and do not help them with aid; but if they have followed so many prophecies, which the gods above and the shades below were giving: why now can anyone overturn your commands or why establish new destinies?

Quid repetem exustas Erycino in litore classes, quid tempestatum regem ventosque furentis Aeolia excitos aut actam nubibus Irim?

Why should I recall the fleets burned on the shore of Eryx, why the king of storms and the raging winds roused from Aeolia, or Iris driven down from the clouds?

Nunc etiam manis, haec intemptata manebat sors rerum, movet et superis immissa repente Allecto, medias Italum bacchata per urbes.

Now she even stirs the underworld—this quarter of the universe remained untried—and Allecto, suddenly let loose upon the upper world, has raved through the midst of the Italian cities.

Nil super imperio moveor: speravimus ista, dum fortuna fuit; vincant quos vincere mavis.

I am not moved at all for empire: we hoped for that while fortune lasted; let those conquer whom you prefer to conquer.

Si nulla est regio, Teucris quam det tua coniunx dura, per eversae, genitor, fumantia Troiae exscidia obtestor, liceat dimittere ab armis incolumem Ascanium, liceat superesse nepotem.

If there is no region which your harsh wife will give to the Teucrians, by the smoking ruins of overturned Troy, O father, I implore you, let it be permitted to dismiss from arms Ascanius unharmed, let it be permitted that my grandson survive.

Aeneas sane ignotis iactetur in undis et, quamcumque viam dederit Fortuna, sequatur: hunc tegere et dirae valeam subducere pugnae.

Let Aeneas indeed be tossed on unknown waters and whatever path Fortune gives, let him follow: let me be able to protect this one and withdraw him from the dreadful battle.

Est Amathus, est celsa mihi Paphus atque Cythera Idaliaeque domus: positis inglorius armis exigat hic aevum.

I have Amathus, I have lofty Paphus and Cythera and the home of Idalia: laying aside his arms without glory let him spend his life here.

Magna dicione iubeto Karthago premat Ausoniam: nihil urbibus inde obstabit Tyriis.

Command with great authority that Carthage crush Ausonia: nothing from those cities will oppose the Tyrians.

Quid pestem evadere belli iuvit et Argolicos medium fugisse per ignes totque maris vastaeque exhausta pericula terrae, dum Latium Teucri recidivaque Pergama quaerunt?

What did it help to escape the plague of war and to have fled through the midst of Argive fires, and to have exhausted so many dangers of the sea and the vast land, while the Trojans seek Latium and a reborn Pergamum?

Non satius cineres patriae insedisse supremos atque solum, quo Troia fuit?

Would it not have been better to settle upon the final ashes of their fatherland and the soil where Troy once stood?

Xanthum et Simoenta redde, oro, miseris iterumque revolvere casus da, pater, Iliacos Teucris.'

Xanthus and Simois restore, I pray, to the wretched men, and grant them, father, to relive again the Trojan misfortunes.'

Tum regia Iuno acta furore gravi: 'Quid me alta silentia cogis rumpere et obductum verbis volgare dolorem?

Then royal Juno, driven by a heavy fury, said: 'Why do you force me to break my deep silence and to make public with words my hidden sorrow?

Aenean hominum quisquam divomque subegit bella sequi aut hostem regi se inferre Latino?

Did any of men or gods compel Aeneas to pursue war or to bring himself as an enemy against King Latinus?

Italiam petiit fatis auctoribus, esto, Cassandrae inpulsus furiis: num linquere castra hortati sumus aut vitam committere ventis?

He sought Italy with the fates as his guides—so be it— driven by the wild ravings of Cassandra: did we urge him to leave the camp or to commit his life to the winds?

Num puero summam belli, num credere muros Tyrrhenamque fidem, aut gentis agitare quietas?

Did we urge him to entrust the command of the war, did we urge him to entrust the walls to a boy And to seek the alliance of the Etruscans, or to stir up peaceful nations?

Quis deus in fraudem, quae dura potentia nostra egit?

What god, what harsh power of ours drove him to his ruin?

Ubi hic Iuno demissave nubibus Iris?

Where is Juno here, or Iris sent down from the clouds?

Indignum est Italos Troiam circumdare flammis nascentem et patria Turnum consistere terra, cui Pilumnus avus, cui diva Venilia mater: quid face Troianos atra vim ferre Latinis, arva aliena iugo premere atque avertere praedas?

Is it a shameful thing that the Italians surround a newborn Troy with flames and that Turnus plants his feet on his native soil— he whose grandfather is Pilumnus, whose mother is the divine Venilia? What about the Trojans bringing violence against the Latins with a black torch, subjugating foreign fields under their yoke and driving away plunder?

Quid soceros legere et gremiis abducere pactas, pacem orare manu, praefigere puppibus arma?

What about choosing fathers-in-law and tearing betrothed brides from the breasts of their lovers, pleading for peace with their hands, while displaying weapons on their ships?

Tu potes Aenean manibus subducere Graium proque viro nebulam et ventos obtendere inanis, tu potes in totidem classem convertere nymphas: nos aliquid Rutulos contra iuvisse nefandum est?

You have the power to steal Aeneas away from the hands of the Greeks and to spread a mist and empty winds in place of the man, and you can change his fleet into as many nymphs: is it a crime for us to have given some help to the Rutulians in return?

Aeneas ignarus abest: ignarus et absit.

Aeneas is absent, unaware: let him be absent and unaware.

Est Paphus Idaliumque tibi, sunt alta Cythera: quid gravidam bellis urbem et corda aspera temptas?

You have Paphos and Idalium, you have lofty Cythera: why do you meddle with a city pregnant with wars and fierce hearts?

Nosne tibi fluxas Phrygiae res vertere fundo conamur, nos, an miseros qui Troas Achivis obiecit?

Is it we who are trying to overturn the fragile state of Phrygia from its foundations for your sake? Is it we, or the one who exposed the wretched Trojans to the Greeks? cast them?

Quae causa fuit, consurgere in arma Europamque Asiamque et foedera solvere furto?

What was the reason that Europe and Asia rose up in arms together and dissolved alliances through a stolen love?

Me duce Dardanius Spartam expugnavit adulter, aut ego tela dedi fovive cupidine bella?

Was it under my leadership that the Dardanian adulterer took Sparta by storm, or did I supply the weapons or foster the war through lust?

Tum decuit metuisse tuis: nunc sera querelis haud iustis adsurgis et inrita iurgia iactas.'

That was the time to have feared for your people: now, too late, you rise up with unjust complaints and fling empty reproaches."

Talibus orabat Iuno, cunctique fremebant caelicolae adsensu vario, ceu flamina prima cum deprensa fremunt silvis et caeca volutant murmura, venturos nautis prodentia ventos.

Thus Juno pleaded, and all the heavenly inhabitants murmured The heaven-dwellers murmured with varied assent, just as when the first breaths of wind rage when caught in the woods, and roll blindly along, muttering low, betraying to sailors that winds are coming.

Tum pater omnipotens, rerum cui prima potestas, infit; eo dicente deum domus alta silescit et tremefacta solo tellus, silet arduus aether, tum Zephyri posuere, premit placida aequora pontus: 'Accipite ergo animis atque haec mea figite dicta.

Then the almighty father, who has supreme power over all things, begins to speak; as he speaks, the high house of the gods grows silent and the earth trembles from its foundations, the high heaven is still, then the Zephyrs drop, and the ocean calms its peaceful waters: 'Take then these words of mine into your minds and fix them there.

Quandoquidem Ausonios coniungi foedere Teucris haud licitum, nec vestra capit discordia finem: quae cuique est fortuna hodie, quam quisque secat spem, Tros Rutulusne fuat nullo discrimine habebo.

Since it is not permitted for the Ausonians to be joined in treaty with the Trojans, and your discord finds no end: whatever fortune each man has today, whatever hope each carves out, whether he be Trojan or Rutulian, I will hold them with no distinction.

Seu fatis Italum castra obsidione tenentur sive errore malo Troiae monitisque sinistris.

Whether it is by the fates of the Italians that the camp is held in siege, or by Troy's fatal error and sinister warnings.

Nec Rutulos solvo: sua cuique exorsa laborem fortunamque ferent.

Nor do I absolve the Rutulians: his own enterprises shall bring each man his toll and his fortune.

Rex Iuppiter omnibus idem.

King Jupiter is the same to all.

Fata viam invenient.'

The Fates will find a way.'

Stygii per flumina fratris, per pice torrentis atraque voragine ripas adnuit et totum nutu tremefecit Olympum.

By the rivers of his Stygian brother, by the banks that boil with pitch and black abyss, he nodded his assent, and with his nod he made all Olympus tremble.

Hic finis fandi.

Here was the end of speaking.

Solio tum Iuppiter aureo surgit, caelicolae medium quem ad limina ducunt.

Then Jupiter rises from his golden throne, and the heaven-dwellers lead him, surrounded, to the threshold.

Interea Rutuli portis circum omnibus instant sternere caede viros et moenia cingere flammis.

Meanwhile, the Rutulians press around all the gates, laying low the men in slaughter and girding the walls with flames.

At legio Aeneadum vallis obsessa tenetur, nec spes ulla fugae.

But the army of Aeneas's followers is held besieged within the ramparts, and there is no hope of flight.

Miseri stant turribus altis nequiquam et rara muros cinxere corona Asius Imbrasides Hicetaoniusque Thymoetes Assaracique duo et senior cum Castore Thymbris, prima acies; hos germani Sarpedonis ambo et Clarus et Thaemon Lycia comitantur ab alta.

Wretchedly they stand upon the high towers In vain they girt the walls with a thin ring of defenders Asius, son of Imbrasus, and Thymoetes, son of Hicetaon, and the two Assaraci, and aged Thymbris with Castor, form the front line; with them both brothers of Sarpedon, Clarus and Thaemon, come from lofty Lycia.

Fert ingens toto conixus corpore saxum, haud partem exiguam montis, Lyrnesius Acmon, nec Clytio genitore minor nec fratre Menestheo.

Straining with his whole body, Lyrnesian Acmon bears a huge rock, no small piece of a mountain, not inferior to his father Clytius nor his brother Menestheus.

Hi iaculis, illi certant defendere saxis molirique ignem nervoque aptare sagittas.

These strive to defend with javelins, those with stones, and to hurl firebrand and fit arrows to the string.

Ipse inter medios, Veneris iustissima cura, Dardanius caput ecce puer detectus honestum, qualis gemma micat, fulvum quae dividit aurum, aut collo decus aut capiti; vel quale per artem inclusum buxo aut Oricia terebintho lucet ebur; fusos cervix cui lactea crinis accipit et molli subnectens circulus auro.

He himself in their midst, the most rightful care of Venus, lo, the Dardanian boy, his noble head uncovered, glitters like a gem that divides the yellow gold, an ornament either for neck or head; or as ivory gleams, skilfully inlaid in boxwood or Orician terebinth; his milk-white neck receives his flowing locks, and a band of soft gold confines them.

Te quoque magnanimae viderunt, Ismare, gentes volnera dirigere et calamos armare veneno, Maeonia generose domo, ubi pinguia culta exercentque viri Pactolusque inrigat auro.

Thee too, Ismarus, high-souled nations saw aiming wounds and arming reeds with poison, noble scion of a Maeonian house, where men till rich fields and Pactolus waters them with gold.

Adfuit et Mnestheus, quem pulsi pristina Turni aggere moerorum sublimem gloria tollit, et Capys: hinc nomen Campanae ducitur urbi.

Mnestheus was there too, whom the recent glory of routing Turnus from the rampart of the walls raises high, and Capys: from him the name of the Campanian city is derived.

Illi inter sese duri certamina belli contulerant: media Aeneas freta nocte secabat.

They had clashed among themselves in the conflicts of cruel war had met: Aeneas was cutting through the sea in the middle of the night.

Namque ut ab Euandro castris ingressus Etruscis regem adit et regi memorat nomenque genusque, quidve petat quidve ipse ferat, Mezentius arma quae sibi conciliet, violentaque pectora Turni edocet, humanis quae sit fiducia rebus admonet immiscetque preces: haud fit mora, Tarchon iungit opes foedusque ferit; tum libera fati classem conscendit iussis gens Lydia divom, externo commissa duci.

For when, having left Evander, he entered the Etruscan camp he approached the king and related to the king both his name and race, what he sought and what he himself offered, what arms Mezentius was gathering for himself, and the violent heart of Turnus he explained, and warned what reliance can be placed on human affairs, and mingled prayers: without delay, Tarchon joined forces and struck a treaty; then, free from fate, the Lydian people embarked upon the fleet by the command of the gods, entrusted to a foreign leader.

Aeneia puppis prima tenet, rostro Phrygios subiuncta leones, imminet Ida super, profugis gratissima Teucris.

Aeneas's ship leads the way, with Phrygian lions yoked beneath her beak, while Ida towers above, most welcome to the exiled Trojans.

Hic magnus sedet Aeneas secumque volutat eventus belli varios, Pallasque sinistro adfixus lateri iam quaerit sidera, opacae noctis iter, iam quae passus terraque marique.

Here great Aeneas sits and ponders with himself the shifting outcomes of the war, and Pallas, clinging to his left side, now asks about the stars, the path of dark night, and now what he had suffered by land and sea.

Pandite nunc Helicona, deae, cantusque movete, quae manus interea Tuscis comitetur ab oris Aenean armetque rates pelagoque vehatur.

Open Helicon now, O goddesses, and wake the song, what force meanwhile accompanies Aeneas from the Tuscan shores and mans his ships and rides upon the sea.

Massicus aerata princeps secat aequora tigri: sub quo mille manus iuvenum, qui moenia Clusi quique urbem liquere Cosas, quis tela sagittae gorytique leves umeris et letifer arcus.

First comes Massicus, cutting the waters in the bronze-plated Tiger: under him is a band of a thousand youths, who left the walls of Clusium and the city of Cosae, whose weapons are arrows, light quivers on their shoulders, and a deadly bow.

Una torvus Abas: huic totum insignibus armis agmen et aurato fulgebat Apolline puppis.

Along with him is fierce Abas: his whole line shone with brilliant armor, and his stern gleamed with a golden Apollo.

Sescentos illi dederat Populonia mater expertos belli iuvenes, ast Ilva trecentos insula inexhaustis Chalybum generosa metallis.

To him his mother-city Populonia had given six hundred youths experienced in war, and Ilva three hundred an island rich in inexhaustible mines of the Chalybes.

Tertius ille hominum divomque interpres Asilas, cui pecudum fibrae, caeli cui sidera parent et linguae volucrum et praesagi fulminis ignes, mille rapit densos acie atque horrentibus hastis.

Third came Asilas, that interpreter between men and gods, to whom the entrails of cattle, to whom the stars of heaven submit, and the tongues of birds, and the fires of prophetic lightning, he hurries a thousand men, crowded in battle array and with bristling spears.

Hos parere iubent Alpheae ab origine Pisae, urbs Etrusca solo.

These men Pisa, Alphean in origin, orders to obey, a city Etruscan in its soil.

Sequitur pulcherrimus Astur, Astur equo fidens et versicoloribus armis.

There follows most beautiful Astur, Astur trusting in his horse and his many-colored armor.

Tercentum adiciunt (mens omnibus una sequendi) qui Caerete domo, qui sunt Minionis in arvis, et Pyrgi veteres intempestaeque Graviscae.

Three hundred more they add (all having one mind to follow), those who are from a home in Caere, those who are in the fields of Minio, and ancient Pyrgi, and unhealthy Graviscae.

Non ego te, Ligurum ductor fortissime bello, transierim, Cinyre, et paucis comitate Cupavo, cuius olorinae surgunt de vertice pennae, crimen, Amor, vestrum formaeque insigne paternae.

I would not pass you by, bravest leader of the Ligurians in war, Cinyras, and Cupavo accompanied by few, from whose crest rise swan feathers, a reproach, O Love, to you, and the emblem of his father's form.

Namque ferunt luctu Cycnum Phaethontis amati, populeas inter frondes umbramque sororum dum canit et maestum Musa solatur amorem, canentem molli pluma duxisse senectam, linquentem terras et sidera voce sequentem.

For they say that Cycnus, out of grief for his beloved Phaethon, amid the poplar leaves and the shade of the sisters, while he sang and consoled his sorrowful love with the Muse, brought on a white old age with soft feathers, leaving the earth and seeking the stars with his voice.

Filius, aequalis comitatus classe catervas, ingentem remis Centaurum promovet: ille instat aquae saxumque undis immane minatur arduus et longa sulcat maria alta carina.

His son, accompanying the bands of his peers with the fleet, propels the huge Centaur with oars: it looms over the water and threatens the waves with a monstrous rock towering aloft, he plows the deep seas with his long keel.

Ille etiam patriis agmen ciet Ocnus ab oris, fatidicae Mantus et Tusci filius amnis, qui muros matrisque dedit tibi, Mantua, nomen, Mantua, dives avis; sed non genus omnibus unum: gens illi triplex, populi sub gente quaterni, ipsa caput populis, Tusco de sanguine vires.

Ocnus also summons a host from his native shores, the son of the prophetic Manto and the Tuscan river, who gave thee, Mantua, thy walls and his mother's name— Mantua, rich in ancestors, yet not all of one stock: triple is her race, and under each race are four peoples, she herself is the head of the peoples, and her strength is from Tuscan blood.

Hinc quoque quingentos in se Mezentius armat, quos patre Benaco velatus harundine glauca Mincius infesta ducebat in aequora pinu.

From here, too, Mezentius arms five hundred against himself, whom Mincius, sprung from father Benacus and veiled in gray reed, was leading to the sea in a hostile ship of pine.

It gravis Aulestes centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens, spumant vada marmore verso.

Heavy Aulestes moves on, and rising up, lashes the wave with a hundred oars; the waters foam as the surface is upturned.

Hunc vehit immanis Triton et caerula concha exterrens freta, cui laterum tenus hispida nanti frons hominem praefert, in pristim desinit alvus: spumea semifero sub pectore murmurat unda.

Him monstrous Triton bears, terrifying the blue seas with his conch shell, whose shaggy front, as he swims, displays a man down to the waist, while his belly ends in a sea monster; beneath his half-beast breast the foaming wave murmurs.

Tot lecti proceres ter denis navibus ibant subsidio Troiae et campos salis aera secabant.

So many chosen chiefs went in thrice ten ships to the aid of Troy, and ploughed the fields of salt with their bronze prows.

Iamque dies caelo concesserat almaque curru noctivago Phoebe medium pulsabat Olympum: Aeneas (neque enim membris dat cura quietem) ipse sedens clavumque regit velisque ministrat.

And now day had vanished from the sky, and kindly Phoebe was smiting mid-heaven with her night-wandering chariot; Aeneas—for care allows no rest to his limbs— sits in person at the helm, guides the ship, and tends the sails.

Atque illi medio in spatio chorus ecce suarum occurrit comitum: nymphae, quas alma Cybebe numen habere maris nymphasque e navibus esse iusserat, innabant pariter fluctusque secabant, quot prius aeratae steterant ad litora prorae.

And lo! in mid-course a band of his own companions meets him: the nymphs whom kindly Cybele had bidden to possess divinity of the sea and to be nymphs instead of ships, were swimming abreast and cutting the waves, as many as the bronze-beaked prows that before had stood by the shore.

Agnoscunt longe regem lustrantque choreis, quarum quae fandi doctissima Cymodocea pone sequens dextra puppim tenet ipsaque dorso eminet ac laeva tacitis subremigat undis, tum sic ignarum adloquitur: 'Vigilasne, deum gens, Aenea?

They recognize their king from afar and encircle him with dances, Of these, Cymodocea, who was the most eloquent in speech, following behind, holds the stern with her right hand, and with her back she herself rises above, and rows with her left hand beneath the silent waves, then thus she addresses him, unaware: 'Are you awake, offspring of the gods, Aeneas?

Vigila et velis immitte rudentis.

Awake, and loose the sheets to your sails.

Nos sumus, Idaeae sacro de vertice pinus, nunc pelagi nymphae, classis tua Perfidus ut nos praecipitis ferro Rutulus flammaque premebat, rupimus invitae tua vincula teque per aequor quaerimus.

We are the pines of Ida, from its sacred summit, now nymphs of the sea, your fleet; when the treacherous Rutulian was pressing us headlong with sword and flame, unwillingly we broke your bonds, and through the sea we seek you.

Hanc Genetrix faciem miserata refecit et dedit esse deas aevumque agitare sub undis.

The Mother, taking pity, refashioned this form of ours and granted us to be goddesses and to pass our lives beneath the waves.

At puer Ascanius muro fossisque tenetur tela inter media atque horrentis Marte Latinos.

But the boy Ascanius is held fast by wall and trenches amid weapons and the Latins bristling with war.

Iam loca iussa tenent forti permixtus Etrusco Arcas eques: medias illis opponere turmas, ne castris iungant, certast sententia Turno.

Now the Arcadian horseman, mingled with the brave Etruscan, holds the designated positions; to oppose them with his squadrons in the midst, lest they join the camp, is Turnus' fixed resolve.

Surge age et Aurora socios veniente vocari primus in arma iube et clipeum cape, quem dedit ipse invictum Ignipotens atque oras ambiit auro.

Rise then, and as dawn approaches, command your comrades to be summoned straightway to arms, and take the shield which the Lord of Fire himself gave, unconquered, and rimmed its edges with gold.

Crastina lux, mea si non inrita dicta putaris, ingentis Rutulae spectabit caedis acervos.'

Tomorrow's light, if you do not think my words are in vain, will look upon vast heaps of Rutulian slaughter.'

Dixerat, et dextra discedens impulit altam haud ignara modi puppim: fugit illa per undas ocior et iaculo et ventos aequante sagitta.

She had spoken, and as she departed, with her right hand she pushed the high stern, well knowing the way; it flies through the waves swifter than both the javelin and the arrow that equals the winds.

Inde aliae celerant cursus.

Thence the others hasten their course.

Stupet inscius ipse Tros Anchisiades; animos tamen omine tollit.

He himself stands amazed, ignorant of the cause, the Trojan son of Anchises; yet he lifts his courage at the omen.

Tum breviter super adspectans convexa precatur: 'Alma parens Idaea deum, cui Dindyma cordi turrigeraeque urbis biiugique ad frena leones, tu mihi nunc pugnae princeps, tu rite propinques augurium Phrygibusque adsis pede, diva, secundo.'

Then, looking up briefly at the vault of heaven, he prays: "Kindly Idaean mother of the gods, to whom Dindyma is dear, and turreted cities, and lions coupled in pairs at your reins, be you now my leader in the battle, do you duly bring close the augury, and stand by the Trojans, goddess, with favoring foot."

Tantum effatus.

Thus much he spoke.

Et interea revoluta rubebat matura iam luce dies noctemque fugarat: principio sociis edicit, signa sequantur atque animos aptent armis pugnaeque parent se.

And meanwhile the day, having rolled round, was growing red with now mature light and had put the night to flight: first he commands his comrades to follow the standards and to fit their minds for arms and prepare themselves for battle.

Iamque in conspectu Teucros habet et sua castra, stans celsa in puppi; clipeum cum deinde sinistra extulit ardentem.

And now he has the Trojans and his own camp in sight, standing on the lofty stern; when next with his left hand he raised his blazing shield.

Clamorem ad sidera tollunt Dardanidae e muris, spes addita suscitat iras, tela manu iaciunt: quales sub nubibus atris Strymoniae dant signa grues atque aethera tranant cum sonitu fugiuntque notos clamore secundo.

They raise a shout to the stars, the Trojans from the walls; added hope rouses their anger, they cast weapons from their hands: just as beneath dark clouds Strymonian cranes give signals and fly across the sky with sound, and flee the south winds with joyful cry.

At Rutulo regi ducibusque ea mira videri Ausoniis, donec versas ad litora puppes respiciunt totumque adlabi classibus aequor.

But to the Rutulian king and the Ausonian leaders these things seemed marvelous, until they look back at the ships turned toward the shores and see the whole sea gliding onward with the fleet.

Ardet apex capiti cristisque a vertice flamma funditur et vastos umbo vomit aureus ignes: non secus ac liquida siquando nocte cometae sanguinei lugubre rubent aut Sirius ardor, ille sitim morbosque ferens mortalibus aegris, nascitur et laevo contristat lumine caelum.

The helmet-crest blazes on his head, and a flame is poured from the top of his plumes, and the golden shield-boss vomits vast fires: just as if ever in a clear night comets glow with a mournful blood-red light, or as the blazing Sirius, which, bringing thirst and disease to suffering mortals, rises and saddens the sky with its ominous light.

Haud tamen audaci Turno fiducia cessit litora praecipere et venientis pellere terra. [ultro animos tollit dictis atque increpat ultro] 'Quod votis optastis, adest, perfringere dextra; in manibus Mars ipse viris.

Yet bold Turnus never lost his confidence to seize the shores first and drive the newcomers from the land. [Of his own accord he rouses their courage with his words and rebukes them besides] "What you have prayed for is now at hand: to crush them with your right hand; the battle itself is now in the hands of brave men.

Nunc coniugis esto quisque suae tectique memor, nunc magna referto facta, patrum laudes.

Now let each man be mindful of his own wife and home; now recall the great deeds, the glories of our fathers.

Ultro occurramus ad undam, dum trepidi egressisque labant vestigia prima.

Let us meet them at the water's edge without delay, while they are still confused and their first steps falter as they disembark.

Audentis Fortuna iuvat,' haec ait et secum versat, quos ducere contra vel quibus obsessos possit concredere muros.

Fortune favors the bold!" So he spoke, and turned over in his mind whom he could lead against them or to whom he could entrust the besieged walls.

Interea Aeneas socios de puppibus altis pontibus exponit.

Meanwhile Aeneas landed his comrades from the tall ships by means of gangplanks.

Multi servare recursus languentis pelagi et brevibus se credere saltu, per remos alii.

Many watched for the retreat of the ebbing sea and committed themselves to the shallows with a leap, while others slid down the oars.

Speculatus litora Tarchon, qua vada non sperat nec fracta remurmurat unda, sed mare inoffensum crescenti adlabitur aestu, advertit subito proram sociosque precatur: 'Nunc, o lecta manus, validis incumbite remis; tollite, ferte rates; inimicam findite rostris hanc terram, sulcumque sibi premat ipsa carina.

Tarchon, having scanned the shores where he expects no shallows and no broken wave murmurs back, but the unobstructed sea glides in with the rising tide, suddenly turns his prow and implores his comrades: "Now, O chosen band, lean into your sturdy oars; lift, drive your ships; cleave this hostile land with your prows let the keel itself press this land, and make a furrow for its own.

Frangere nec tali puppim statione recuso arrepta tellure semel.'

Nor do I refuse to shatter the ship in such a landing once the land is grasped.'

Quae talia postquam effatus Tarchon, socii consurgere tonsis spumantisque rates arvis inferre Latinis, donec rostra tenent siccum et sedere carinae omnes innocuae, sed non puppis tua, Tarchon.

After Tarchon had spoken such words, his comrades rose to their oars and brought their foaming ships into the Latin fields, until the prows gained the dry land and the keels rested all unharmed; but not your ship, Tarchon.

Namque inflicta vadis dorso dum pendet iniquo, anceps sustentata diu fluctusque fatigat, solvitur atque viros mediis exponit in undis fragmina remorum quos et fluitantia transtra impediunt, retrahitque pedem simul unda relabens.

For, dashed upon the shallows, while she hung upon an uneven ridge, sustained in balance for a long time, and buffeted the waves, she broke apart and cast her men into the midst of the waters, whom fragments of oars and floating benches entangle, while at the same time the ebbing wave drags back their footing.

Nec Turnum segnis retinet mora, sed rapit acer totam aciem in Teucros et contra in litore sistit.

Nor does sluggish delay hold Turnus back, but fierce he sweeps his whole army against the Trojans and arrays them against them on the shore.

Signa canunt.

The trumpets sound.

Primus turmas invasit agrestis Aeneas, omen pugnae, stravitque Latinos occiso Therone, virum qui maximus ultro Aenean petit: huic gladio perque aerea suta, per tunicam squalentem auro latus haurit apertum.

First Aeneas attacked the rustic squadrons, as an omen of the battle, and laid low the Latins, slaying Theron, who, greatest among the men, of his own accord sought Aeneas: through his bronze stitches with the sword, through his tunic stiff with gold, he pierced his exposed side.

Inde Lichan ferit, exsectum iam matre perempta et tibi, Phoebe, sacrum: casus evadere ferri quo licuit parvo?

Then he struck Lichas, who had been cut from his already dead mother and was sacred to you, Phoebus: for what did it avail him as a child to escape the peril of the steel?

Nec longe Cissea durum immanemque Gyan, sternentis agmina clava, deiecit Leto: nihil illos Herculis arma nec validae iuvere manus genitorque Melampus, Alcidae comes usque gravis dum terra labores praebuit.

Nor far away did he strike down stern Cisseus and huge Gyas, as he was laying low whole ranks with his club, he brought down to death; the weapons of Hercules availed them nothing, nor did their strong hands and their father Melampus help them, the lifelong companion of Alcides, so long as the earth provided heavy labors for him.

Ecce Pharo, voces dum iactat inertis, intorquens iaculum clamanti sistit in ore.

Lo, at Pharus, while he was hurling idle words, he hurled his javelin and fixed it in his shouting mouth.

Tu quoque, flaventem prima lanugine malas dum sequeris Clytium infelix, nova gaudia, Cydon, Dardania stratus dextra, securus amorum, qui iuvenum tibi semper erant, miserande iaceres, ni fratrum stipata cohors foret obvia, Phorci progenies, septem numero, septenaque tela coniciunt; partim galea clipeoque resultant inrita, deflexit partim stringentia corpus alma Venus.

You too, Cydon, while you unhappy man followed Clytius, your new joy, with his cheeks yellow with their first down, stretched out by a Dardanian right hand, and cured of those loves for youth which you always had, would have lain there, a pitiable sight, had not the crowded cohort of your brothers stood in the way, the offspring of Phorcus, seven in number, and seven weapons they cast; some bounded off harmlessly from his helmet and shield, while others, grazing his body, were turned aside by gracious Venus.

Fidum Aeneas adfatur Achaten: 'Suggere tela mihi: non ullum dextera frustra torserit in Rutulos, steterunt quae in corpore Graium Iliacis campis.'

Aeneas spoke to faithful Achates: "Supply me with weapons; my right hand shall not hurl in vain against the Rutulians any of those which stood in the bodies of the Greeks on the Trojan plains."

Tum magnam corripit hastam et iacit: illa volans clipei transverberat aera Maeonis et thoraca simul cum pectore rumpit.

Then he seized a great spear and threw it; flying, it crashed through the bronze of the shield of Maeon, and broke his breastplate and breast at the same time.

Huic frater subit Alcanor fratremque ruentem sustentat dextra: traiecto missa lacerto protinus hasta fugit servatque cruenta tenorem, dexteraque ex umero nervis moribunda pependit.

His brother Alcanor came to his aid, and sustained his falling brother with his right hand; the spear, cast onward, pierced right through his arm, and flew straight on, keeping its bloody course unchanged, And his right arm hung dying from his shoulder by its sinews.

Tum Numitor iaculo fratris de corpore rapto Aenean petiit; sed non et figere contra est licitum, magnique femur perstrinxit Achatae.

Then Numitor, tearing the javelin from his brother's body, aimed it at Aeneas; but it was not granted him in turn to transfix him, and it grazed the thigh of great Achates.

Hic Curibus fidens primaevo corpore Clausus advenit et rigida Dryopem ferit eminus hasta sub mentum graviter pressa pariterque loquentis vocem animamque rapit traiecto gutture; at ille fronte ferit terram et crassum vomit ore cruorem.

Here Clausus of Cures, relying on his youthful strength, approached and struck Dryops from afar with his stiff spear, driven hard under his chin, and even as he spoke, it robbed him of voice and life, piercing his throat; but he struck the ground with his forehead and vomited thick blood from his mouth.

Tres quoque Threicios Boreae de gente suprema et tris, quos Idas pater et patria Ismara mittit, per varios sternit casus.

Three Thracians also, of the exalted line of Boreas, and three whom their father Idas and their homeland Ismarus sent, he laid low by various fates.

Accurrit Halaesus Auruncaeque manus, subit et Neptunia proles, insignis Messapus equis.

Halaesus ran to the spot with the Auruncan bands, and Neptune's offspring followed, Messapus, renowned for his horses.

Expellere tendunt nunc hi, nunc illi; certatur limine in ipso Ausoniae.

Now these, now those strove to drive the others out; the battle raged on the very threshold of Ausonia.

Magno discordes aethere venti proelia ceu tollunt animis et viribus aequis; non ipsi inter se, non nubila, non mare cedit; anceps pugna diu, stant obnixa omnia contra: haud aliter Troianae acies aciesque Latinae concurrunt; haeret pede pes densusque viro vir.

Just as conflicting winds in the great heavens stir up war with equal courage and strength; neither they themselves, nor the clouds, nor the sea gives way; the battle hangs in doubt long, all things stand locked in opposition: just so the Trojan ranks and the Latin ranks clash together; foot presses to foot, and man packed close to man.

At parte ex alia, qua saxa rotantia late impulerat torrens arbustaque diruta ripis, Arcadas insuetos acies inferre pedestris ut vidit Pallas Latio dare terga sequaci (aspera quis natura loci dimittere quando suasit equos), unum quod rebus restat egenis, nunc prece, nunc dictis virtutem accendit amaris: 'Quo fugitis, socii?

But in another quarter, where a torrent had driven rolling stones far and wide and uprooted trees from the banks, When Pallas saw the Arcadians, unaccustomed to wage battle on foot turning their backs to the pursuing Latians (since the rough nature of the place had persuaded them at length to dismiss their horses), he, using the only resource that remains in desperate straits, inflames their courage, now with prayers, now with bitter words: 'Whither do you flee, comrades?

Per vos et fortia facta, per ducis Evandri nomen devictaque bella Opemque meam, patriae quae nunc subit aemula laudi, fidite ne pedibus.

By yourselves and your brave deeds, by the name of your leader Evander and the battles you have won, and by my own hopes, which now rise to rival my father's renown, trust not to your feet.

Ferro rumpenda per hostis est via.

With the sword a way must be burst through the enemy.

Qua globus ille virum densissimus urget, hac vos et Pallanta ducem patria alta reposcit.

Where that thickest mass of men presses on, there your noble fatherland demands you and your leader Pallas back.

Numina nulla premunt, mortali urgemur ab hoste mortales, totidem nobis animaeque manusque.

No gods oppress us; we are hard pressed by a mortal foe, ourselves mortal, and we have just as many lives and hands.

Ecce, maris magna claudit nos obice pontus, deest iam terra fugae: pelagus Troiamne petemus?'

Behold, the deep shuts us in with the great barrier of the sea, land is now lacking for flight: shall we seek the ocean or the Trojan camp?'

Haec ait et medius densos prorumpit in hostis.

Thus he spoke, and dashed into the midst of the thickest foes.

Obvius huic primum, fatis adductus iniquis, fit Lagus.

First to meet him, drawn on by an unkind fate, came Lagus.

Hunc, magno vellit dum pondere saxum, intorto figit telo, discrimina costis per medium qua spina dabat, hastamque receptat ossibus haerentem.

Him, while he was tearing up a stone of huge weight, Pallas pierced with a hurled javelin, just where the spine made a division in the ribs through the middle of his back, and recovered the spear as it clung to the bones.

Quem non super occupat Hisbo, ille quidem hoc sperans: nam Pallas ante ruentem, dum furit, incautum crudeli morte sodalis excipit atque ensem tumido in pulmone recondit.

Hisbo did not surprise him from above, He indeed did so hoping; for Pallas, before he could rush on, while he raged, caught him off guard by the cruel death of his companion and buried his sword deep in his swelling chest.

Hinc Sthenium petit et Rhoeti de gente vetusta Anchemolum, thalamos ausum incestare novercae.

Next he attacked Sthenius and Anchemolus, from the ancient line of Rhoetus, Anchemolus, who had dared to defile his stepmother's marriage bed.

Vos etiam, gemini, Rutulis cecidistis in agris, Daucia, Laride Thymberque, simillima proles, indiscreta suis gratusque parentibus error; at nunc dura dedit vobis discrimina Pallas: nam tibi, Thymbre, caput Evandrius abstulit ensis; te decisa suum, Laride, dextera quaerit semianimesque micant digiti ferrumque retractant.

You too, twins, fell in the Rutulian fields, Larides and Thymber, the look-alike offspring of Daucus, indistinguishable to their own family, a delightful confusion to their parents; but now Pallas made a grim distinction between you: for from you, Thymber, the sword of Evander's son took your head; while your severed right hand, Larides, searches for you, its master, and the dying fingers twitch and clutch again at the sword.

Arcadas accensos monitu et praeclara tuentis facta viri mixtus dolor et pudor armat in hostis.

A mixture of grief and shame armed the Arcadians against the enemy, fired up as they were by his warning and witnessing the hero's brilliant deeds.

Tum Pallas biiugis fugientem Rhoetea praeter traicit.

Then Pallas pierced Rhoeteus as he flew past in his two-horse chariot pierces his hollow temples.

Hoc spatium tantumque morae fuit Ilo; Ilo namque procul validam direxerat hastam, quam medius Rhoeteus intercipit, optime Teuthra, te fugiens fratremque Tyren, curruque volutus caedit semianimis Rutulorum calcibus arva.

This was all the space and respite that Ilus gained; for it was at Ilus that Pallas had aimed his strong spear from afar, which Rhoeteus intercepted mid-course, noble Teuthras, fleeing you and your brother Tyres; and tumbling from the chariot, he drummed the Rutulian fields with his heels in the throes of death.

Ac velut optato ventis aestate coortis dispersa immittit silvis incendia pastor, correptis subito mediis extenditur una horrida per latos acies Volcania campos; ille sedens victor flammas despectat ovantis: non aliter socium virtus coit omnis in unum teque iuvat, Palla.

And just as a shepherd, when the winds have risen to his liking in summer, sets scattered fires into the woods, and when the center is suddenly engulfed, a single terrifying battle-line of Vulcan spreads across the broad plains; while he sits victorious, looking down on the triumphant flames: just so did all the courage of your comrades unite in one to support you, Pallas.

Sed bellis acer Halaesus tendit in adversos seque in sua conligit arma.

But Halaesus, fierce in war, rushes against his foes and gathers himself behind his shield.

Hic mactat Ladona Pheretaque Demodocumque, Strymonio dextram fulgenti deripit ense elatam in iugulum, saxo ferit ora Thoantis ossaque dispersit cerebro permixta cruento.

Here he slaughters Ladon, Pheres, and Demodocus, and with his gleaming sword he cuts off the right hand of Strymonius, raised against his throat; with a rock he strikes the face of Thoas and scatters his bones, mingled with bloody brains.

Fata canens silvis genitor celarat Halaesum: ut senior leto canentia lumina solvit, iniecere manum Parcae telisque sacrarunt Evandri.

His father, foreseeing his fate, had hidden Halaesus in the woods; but when the old man in death closed his whitening eyes, the Fates laid their hand upon him and devoted him to the weapons of Evander.

Quem sic Pallas petit ante precatus: 'Da nunc, Thybri pater, ferro, quod missile libro, fortunam atque viam duri per pectus Halaesi.

Him Pallas attacks, having first prayed thus: "Grant now, father Tiber, to the steel which I poise and hurl, good fortune and a path through the chest of hardy Halaesus.

Haec arma exuviasque viri tua quercus habebit.'

Your oak tree shall hold these arms and spoils of the warrior."

Audiit illa deus: dum texit Imaona Halaesus, Arcadio infelix telo dat pectus inermum.

The god heard it; while Halaesus was shielding Imaon, the ill-fated man offers his unprotected chest to the Arcadian weapon.

At non caede viri tanta perterrita Lausus, pars ingens belli, sinit agmina: primus Abantem oppositum interimit, pugnae nodumque moramque.

But Lausus, a massive part of the war, does not allow his ranks to be dismayed by the slaughter of so great a warrior; first he slays Abas, who stood against him, the barrier and bottleneck of the battle.

Sternitur Arcadiae proles, sternuntur Etrusci et vos, O Grais imperdita corpora, Teucri.

Down fall the offspring of Arcadia, down fall the Etruscans, and you, O Trojans, bodies undestroyed by the Greeks.

Agmina concurrunt ducibusque et viribus aequis.

The armies clash, equal in leaders and in strength.

Extremi addensent acies nec turba moveri tela manusque sinit.

The rearguard crowds the front ranks, nor does the crush allow their weapons and hands to move.

Hinc Pallas instat et urget, hinc contra Lausus, nec multum discrepat aetas: egregii forma, sed quis Fortuna negarat in patriam reditus.

On this side Pallas presses and urges on, on that side Lausus opposes him, nor did their ages differ much: both matchless in beauty, but to whom Fortune had denied a return to their homeland.

Ipsos concurrere passus haud tamen inter se magni regnator Olympi: mox illos sua fata manent maiore sub hoste.

He allowed them to clash face to face yet the ruler of great Olympus did not allow them to fight each other: soon their own fates await them under a greater enemy.

Interea soror alma monet succedere Lauso Turnum, qui volucri curru medium secat agmen.

Meanwhile, his gracious sister warns Turnus to come to the aid of Lausus, Turnus, who cuts through the middle of the army with his swift chariot.

Ut vidit socios: 'Tempus desistere pugnae; solus ego in Pallanta feror, soli mihi Pallas debetur; cuperem ipse parens spectator adesset.'

When he saw his comrades, he cried: "It is time to leave off from battle; I alone am advancing against Pallas, to me alone is Pallas owed; I could wish his father himself were present as a spectator."

Haec ait, et socii cesserunt aequore iusso.

He said this, and his comrades withdrew from the field as ordered.

At Rutulum abscessu iuvenis tum iussa superba miratus stupet in Turno corpusque per ingens lumina volvit obitque truci procul omnia visus talibus et dictis it contra dicta tyranni: 'Aut spoliis ego iam raptis laudabor opimis aut leto insigni: sorti pater aequus utrique est.

But upon the departure of the Rutulians, the youth, marvelling then at the arrogant commands, is amazed at Turnus, and rolls his eyes across that massive frame, and from afar scans everything with a fierce gaze, and with these words he goes against the words of the tyrant: "Either I shall soon be praised for winning the richest spoils, or for a glorious death: my father is equal to either fate.

Tolle minas.'

Away with your threats."

Fatus medium procedit in aequor.

Having spoken, he advances into the middle of the plain.

Frigidus Arcadibus coit in praecordia sanguis.

The cold blood curdles in the hearts of the Arcadians.

Desiluit Turnus biiugis, pedes apparat ire comminus; utque leo, specula cum vidit ab alta stare procul campis meditantem in proelia taurum, advolat: haud alia est Turni venientis imago.

Turnus leaped down from his two-horse chariot, preparing to go on foot to hand-to-hand combat; and like a lion, when he has seen from a high lookout a bull standing far off on the plains, practicing for battle, flies forward: no different is the image of Turnus as he advances.

Hunc ubi contiguum missae fore credidit hastae, ire prior Pallas, siqua fors adiuvet ausum viribus imparibus, magnumque ita ad aethera fatur: 'Per patris hospitium et mensas, quas advena adisti, te precor, Alcide, coeptis ingentibus adsis.

When Pallas believed him to be within range of a spear-cast, Pallas advanced first, to see if any fortune might aid him in his daring venture with unequal strength, and thus speaks to the great heavens: "By my father's hospitality and the tables which you approached as a stranger, I pray you, Alcides, support my massive undertaking.

Cernat semineci sibi me rapere arma cruenta victoremque ferant morientia lumina Turni.'

Let him behold me stripping the bloody armor from his dying body" and let the dying eyes of Turnus behold me victorious.'

Audiit Alcides iuvenem magnumque sub imo corde premit gemitum lacrimasque effundit inanis.

Alcides heard the youth, and deep within his bottommost heart he stifled a groan and poured forth useless tears.

Tum Genitor natum dictis adfatur amicis: 'Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus omnibus est vitae: sed famam extendere factis, hoc virtutis opus.

Then the Father addressed his son with kindly words: 'Each has his own appointed day; short and unrecoverable is the span of life for all: but to extend one's fame by deeds, this is the task of virtue.

Troiae sub moenibus altis tot nati cecidere deum; quin occidit una Sarpedon, mea progenies.

Beneath the high walls of Troy so many sons of gods fell; nay, there fell together with them Sarpedon, my own offspring.

Etiam sua Turnum fata vocant, metasque dati pervenit ad aevi.'

Even Turnus his own fates call, and he has reached the goal of his allotted life.'

Sic ait atque oculos Rutulorum reicit arvis.

Thus he spoke, and turned his eyes away from the fields of the Rutulians.

At Pallas magnis emittit viribus hastam vaginaque cava fulgentem deripit ensem.

But Pallas hurled his spear with mighty force and snatched his gleaming sword from its hollow scabbard.

Illa volans umeri surgunt qua tegmina summa incidit atque viam clipei molita per oras tandem etiam magno strinxit de corpore Turni.

Flying on, where the topmost protections of the shoulder rise, it struck, and forcing a way through the edges of the shield, at last it even grazed a part of the great body of Turnus.

Hic Turnus ferro praefixum robur acuto in Pallanta diu librans iacit atque ita fatur: 'Adspice, num mage sit nostrum penetrabile telum.'

Here Turnus, poising it for a long time, hurled the oak shaft tipped with sharp iron against Pallas, and thus spoke: 'See whether our weapon be not the more piercing.'

Dixerat; at clipeum, tot ferri terga, tot aeris, quem pellis totiens obeat circumdata tauri, vibranti cuspis medium transverberat ictu loricaeque moras et pectus perforat ingens.

He had spoken; but the shield, through so many layers of iron, so many of bronze, which the surrounding hide of a bull covers so many times over, the spear-point pierced right through the middle with a vibrating blow, and perforated the resistance of the corselet and his mighty breast.

Ille rapit calidum frustra de volnere telum: una eademque via sanguis animusque sequuntur.

In vain he tore the warm weapon from the wound: by one and the same path the blood and life followed after.

Corruit in volnus, sonitum super arma dedere et terram hostilem moriens petit ore cruento.

He collapsed upon his wound, and his armor clashed above him and dying, he bit the hostile earth with bloody mouth.

Quem Turnus super adsistens, 'Arcades, haec,' inquit, 'memores mea dicta referte Euandro; qualem meruit, Pallanta remitto.

Standing over him, Turnus spoke: 'Arcadians,' he said, 'mindful, carry these words of mine back to Evander: I send Pallas back to him such as he deserved.

Quisquis honos tumuli, quidquid solamen humandi est, largior.

Whatever honor there is in a tomb, whatever solace in burial, I freely grant.

Haud illi stabunt Aeneia parvo hospitia.'

His welcoming of Aeneas will cost him no small price.'

Et laevo pressit pede talia fatus exanimem, rapiens immania pondera baltei impressumque nefas, una sub nocte iugali caesa manus iuvenum foede thalamique cruenti, quae Clonus Eurytides multo caelaverat auro; quo nunc Turnus ovat spolio gaudetque potitus.

And having spoken such words, he pressed the corpse with his left foot, snatching away the massive weight of the belt and the horror engraved upon it: how on a single wedding night a band of young men was foully slaughtered and the bridal chambers ran with blood, which Clonus, son of Eurytus, had chased in abundant gold; in which spoil Turnus now exults, and glories in its possession.

Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurae et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis!

O mind of man, ignorant of fate and of future lot, and unable to keep moderation when uplifted by prosperity!

Turno tempus erit, magno cum optaverit emptum intactum Pallanta et cum spolia ista diemque oderit.

There will come a time for Turnus when he would wish to have bought at a great price an unharmed Pallas, and when he will hate those spoils and that day.

At socii multo gemitu lacrimisque impositum scuto referunt Pallanta frequentes.

But his comrades, with many a groan and tear, crowded round and carried Pallas back, laid upon his shield.

O dolor atque decus magnum rediture parenti haec te prima dies bello dedit, haec eadem aufert, cum tamen ingentis Rutulorum linquis acervos.

O you who will return as a great grief and yet a great glory to your parent, this first day gave you to war, this same day takes you away, though you yet leave behind vast heaps of slaughtered Rutulians.

Nec iam fama mali tanti, sed certior auctor advolat Aeneae, tenui discrimine leti esse suos, versis tempus succurrere Teucris.

And now no longer a mere rumor of so great a disaster, but a surer messenger he flies to Aeneas's aid, at the narrow margin of death that his own people are in danger, that it is time to succor the routed Trojans.

Proxima quaeque metit gladio latumque per agmen ardens limitem agit ferro, te, Turne, superbum caede nova quaerens.

Everything nearest he reaps with the sword, and through the wide army burning he drives a path with the steel, seeking you, Turnus, proud with recent slaughter.

Pallas, Euander, in ipsis omnia sunt oculis, mensae, quas advena primas tunc adiit, dextraeque datae.

Pallas, Evander, all are before his very eyes—the tables which he, a stranger, first then approached, and the right hands given.

Sulmone creatos quattuor hic iuvenes, totidem, quos educat Ufens, viventis rapit, inferias quos immolet umbris captivoque rogi perfundat sanguine flammas.

Those born of Sulmo four youths he here captures, and as many whom Ufens rears, he takes them alive, to offer as victims to the shades and to pour the captive blood over the flames of the funeral pyre.

Inde Mago procul infensam contenderat hastam.

Next, from afar, he had hurled his hostile spear at Magus.

Ille astu subit ac tremibunda supervolat hasta, et genua amplectens effatur talia supplex: 'Per patrios manis et spes surgentis Iuli te precor, hanc animam serves natoque patrique.

He cunningly ducks, and the quivering spear flies over him, and clasping his knees, as a suppliant speaks thus: "By your father's shades and the hopes of rising Iulus, I pray you, preserve this life for my son and my father.

Est domus alta, iacent penitus defossa talenta caelati argenti, sunt auri pondera facti infectique mihi.

I have a noble house; deep underground lie buried talents of chased silver; I have masses of wrought gold and unwrought.

Non hic victoria Teucrum vertitur aut anima una dabit discrimina tanta.'

The victory of the Trojans does not turn on this, nor will one life make so great a difference."

Dixerat.

He had spoken.

Aeneas contra cui talia reddit: 'Argenti atque auri memoras quae multa talenta, natis parce tuis.

Aeneas in reply returns these words to him: "The many talents of silver and gold that you mention, spare them for your children.

Belli commercia Turnus sustulit ista prior iam tum Pallante perempto.

Such traffickings of war Turnus put an end to before this, even then when Pallas was slain."

Hoc patris Anchisae manes, hoc sentit Iulus.'

This the shade of my father Anchises, this Iulus feels.'

Sic fatus galeam laeva tenet atque reflexa cervice orantis capulo tenus applicat ensem.

Thus having spoken, with his left hand he holds the helmet, and, bending back the neck of the pleading man, he drives the sword in up to the hilt.

Nec procul Haemonides, Phoebi Triviaeque sacerdos, infula cui sacra redimibat tempora vitta, totus conlucens veste atque insignibus armis.

And not far off was Haemonides, the priest of Phoebus and Trivia, whose temples a sacred fillet bound with its holy band, all glittering in his robe and conspicuous armor.

Quem congressus agit campo lapsumque superstans immolat ingentique umbra tegit; arma Serestus lecta refert umeris, tibi, rex Gradive, tropaeum.

Meeting him, Aeneas drives him across the plain, and standing over the fallen man, slaughters him and covers him with a vast shadow; Serestus carries back the gathered armor on his shoulders, a trophy for you, King Gradivus.

Instaurant acies Volcani stirpe creatus Caeculus et veniens Marsorum montibus Umbro: Dardanides contra furit.

Caeculus, born from the stock of Vulcan, and Umbro, coming from the mountains of the Marsi, renew the battle ranks: the son of Dardanus rages against them.

Anxuris ense sinistram et totum clipei ferro deiecerat orbem; dixerat ille aliquid magnum vimque adfore verbo crediderat caeloque animum fortasse ferebat canitiemque sibi et longos promiserat annos: Tarquitus exultans contra fulgentibus armis, silvicolae Fauno Dryope quem nympha crearat, obvius ardenti sese obtulit.

With his sword, Aeneas had struck off Anxur's left hand and the whole circle of his shield with the iron blade; that man had spoken some grand word and believed there would be power in his speech, and was lifting his spirit perhaps to heaven, and had promised himself gray hair and long years: Tarquitus, exulting opposite him in glittering armor, whom the nymph Dryope had borne to woodland Faunus, threw himself in the way of the raging hero.

Ille reducta loricam clipeique ingens onus impedit hasta; tum caput orantis nequiquam et multa parantis dicere deturbat terrae truncumque tepentem provolvens super haec inimico pectore fatur: 'Istic nunc, metuende, iace.

The other, drawing back his spear, pins fast the cuirass and the huge weight of the shield; then, as the man pleaded in vain and prepared to say many things, he strikes off his head to the ground, and rolling forward the warm corpse, he speaks these words over it from a hostile heart: 'Lie there now, you dreaded one.

Non te optima mater condet humi patrioque onerabit membra sepulchro: alitibus linquere feris aut gurgite mersum unda feret piscesque impasti volnera lambent.'

No excellent mother shall bury you in the earth, or weigh down your limbs with a father's tomb: you shall be left to the wild birds, or, submerged in the abyss, the wave will carry you away, and hungry fish will lick your wounds.'

Protinus Antaeum et Lucam, prima agmina Turni, persequitur fortemque Numam fulvumque Camertem, magnanimo Volcente satum, ditissimus agri qui fuit Ausonidum et tacitis regnavit Amyclis.

Straightway he pursues Antaeus and Lucas, Turnus' foremost ranks, and brave Numa and yellow-haired Camers, born of high-souled Volcens, who was the richest in land among the Ausonians, and ruled over silent Amyclae.

Aegaeon qualis, centum cui bracchia dicunt centenasque manus, quinquaginta oribus ignem pectoribusque arsisse, Iovis cum fulmina contra tot paribus streperet clipeis, tot stringeret enses: sic toto Aeneas desaevit in aequore victor, ut semel intepuit mucro.

Just like Aegaeon, who, they say, had a hundred arms and a hundred hands, and blazed with fire from fifty mouths and chests, when against Jupiter's thunderbolts he clashed with as many matching shields and drew as many swords: so Aeneas raged victorious over the whole plain, once his blade grew warm with blood.

Quin ecce Niphaei quadriiugis in equos adversaque pectora tendit.

Nay, look, against the four-horse chariot of Niphaeus and their charging breasts he advances.

Atque illi longe gradientem et dira frementem ut videre, metu versi retroque ruentes effunduntque ducem rapiuntque ad litora currus.

And when they saw him striding from afar and raging terribly, turned in fear and rushing backward, they throw out their leader and carry the chariot away to the shores.

Interea biiugis infert se Lucagus albis in medios fraterque Liger; sed frater habenis flectit equos, strictum rotat acer Lucagus ensem.

Meanwhile Lucagus throws himself into the midst on a chariot with two white horses, along with his brother Liger; but the brother with the reins guides the horses, while fierce Lucagus brandishes his drawn sword.

Haud tulit Aeneas tanto fervore furentis: inruit adversaque ingens apparuit hasta.

Aeneas did not endure them raging with such fervor: he rushed forward and appeared massive with his opposing spear.

Cui Liger: 'Non Diomedis equos nec currum cernis Achillis aut Phrygiae campos: nunc belli finis et aevi his dabitur terris.'

To him Liger said: "You do not see the horses of Diomedes, nor the chariot of Achilles, or the plains of Phrygia: now the end of the war and of your life shall be given upon this soil."

Vesano talia late dicta volant Ligeri.

Such words fly far and wide from mad Liger.

Sed non et Troius heros dicta parat contra: iaculum nam torquet in hostem.

But the Trojan hero did not prepare He prepares words in reply: for he hurls his javelin at the enemy.

Lucagus ut pronus pendens in verbera telo admonuit biiugos, proiecto dum pede laevo aptet se pugnae, subit oras hasta per imas fulgentis clipei, tum laevum perforat inguen: excussus curru moribundus volvitur arvis.

As Lucagus, leaning forward, hanging over the lashes, with his weapon urged on his team of two horses, while with his left foot thrust forward he prepares himself for battle, the spear passes through the lowest edges of his gleaming shield, then pierces his left groin: flung from the chariot, dying, he rolls upon the fields.

Quem pius Aeneas dictis adfatur amaris: 'Lucage, nulla tuos currus fuga segnis equorum prodidit aut vanae vertere ex hostibus umbrae: ipse rotis saliens iuga deseris.'

Whom dutiful Aeneas addresses with bitter words: "Lucagus, no cowardly flight of your horses has betrayed your chariot, nor have empty shadows turned them from the enemy: you yourself, leaping from the wheels, abandon the team."

Haec ita fatus arripuit biiugos; frater tendebat inertis infelix palmas, curru delapsus eodem: 'Per te, per qui te talem genuere parentes, vir Troiane, sine hanc animam et miserere precantis.'

Having spoken these words, he seized the two horses; his brother held out his helpless hands, unhappy man, having fallen down from the same chariot: "By yourself, by the parents who begot you as such a man, O Trojan hero, spare this life and pity one who begs."

Pluribus oranti Aeneas: 'Haud talia dudum dicta dabas.

To him, pleading with more words, Aeneas said: "Not such words were you giving a short time ago.

Morere et fratrem ne desere frater.'

Die, and as a brother, do not abandon your brother."

Tum latebras animae pectus mucrone recludit.

Then with his blade he lays open his breast, the hiding place of the soul.

Talia per campos edebat funera ductor Dardanius, torrentis aquae vel turbinis atri more furens.

Such deaths across the plains the Trojan leader was causing, raging like a rushing torrent or a dark whirlwind. in the manner of a raging beast.

Tandem erumpunt et castra relinquunt Ascanius puer et nequiquam obsessa iuventus.

At last they break out and leave the camp, the boy Ascanius and the youth besieged in vain.

Iunonem interea compellat Iuppiter ultro: 'O germana mihi atque eadem gratissima coniunx, ut rebare, Venus, nec te sententia fallit, Troianas sustentat opes, non vivida bello dextra viris animusque ferox patiensque pericli.'

Meanwhile Jupiter addresses Juno of his own accord: "O my sister and also my most beloved wife, as you thought, Venus—and your opinion does not deceive you— sustains the Trojan power, not the right hand of the men vivid in war and their fierce spirit, patient of danger."

Cui Iuno summissa 'Quid, o pulcherrime coniunx, sollicitas aegram et tua tristia dicta timentem?

To him Juno, submissive, replied: "Why, O most beautiful husband, do you trouble her in her sickness and fear of your grim words?

Si mihi, quae quondam fuerat quamque esse decebat, vis in amore foret, non hoc mihi namque negares, omnipotens, quin et pugnae subducere Turnum et Dauno possem incolumem servare parenti.

If I had that power in love, which I once had and which it was fitting to be, for surely you would not deny me this, almighty one, but that I might both withdraw Turnus from the battle and be able to preserve him safe for his father Daunus.

Nunc pereat Teucrisque pio det sanguine poenas.

Now let him perish, and with his pious blood pay the penalty to the Trojans.

Ille tamen nostra deducit origine nomen Pilumnusque illi quartus pater et tua larga saepe manu multisque oneravit limina donis.'

Yet he derives his name from our lineage, and Pilumnus is his ancestor four generations back, and often with a lavish hand has he loaded your thresholds with many gifts."

Cui rex aetherii breviter sic fatur Olympi: 'Si mora praesentis leti tempusque caduco oratur iuveni meque hoc ita ponere sentis, tolle fuga Turnum atque instantibus eripe fatis hactenus indulsisse vacat.

To whom the king of ethereal Olympus briefly speaks thus: "If a delay of present death and time for the doomed youth is prayed for, and you understand that I arrange this thus, take Turnus away in flight and rescue him from the looming fates; there is room to have indulged you thus far.

Sin altior istis sub precibus venia ulla latet totumque moveri mutarive putas bellum, spes pascis inanis.'

But if any deeper favor hides beneath those prayers, and you think the whole war is being moved or changed, you feed on empty hopes."

Et Iuno adlacrimans: 'Quid si, quae voce gravaris, mente dares atque haec Turno rata vita maneret?

And Juno, weeping: "What if, what you begrudge in voice, you would grant in mind, and this life should remain ratified for Turnus?

Nunc manet insontem gravis exitus, aut ego veri vana feror.

Now a heavy end awaits the innocent man, or I am borne along empty of the truth.

Quod ut O potius formidine falsa ludar et in melius tua, qui potes, orsa reflectas!'

But oh, rather may I be mocked by a false dread, and may you, who are able, turn your undertakings to the better!"

Haec ubi dicta dedit, caelo se protinus alto misit, agens hiemem nimbo succincta per auras, Iliacamque aciem et Laurentia castra petivit.

When she gave these words, she cast herself straightway from high heaven, driving a storm, girt with a cloud through the air, and sought the Trojan battleline and the Laurentine camp.

Tum dea nube cava tenuem sine viribus umbram in faciem Aeneae, visu mirabile monstrum, Dardaniis ornat telis clipeumque iubasque divini adsimulat capitis, dat inania verba, dat sine mente sonum gressusque effingit euntis, morte obita qualis fama est volitare figuras aut quae sopitos deludunt somnia sensus.

Then the goddess from a hollow cloud a thin, strengthless phantom in the likeness of Aeneas, a wonder to behold, decks with Trojan weapons, and the shield and crests of his divine head she counterfeits, she gives empty words, she gives sound without mind, and mimics the stride of one walking; like the shapes that rumor says flit about when death has passed, or the dreams that mock the sleeping senses.

At primas laeta ante acies exsultat imago inritatque virum telis et voce lacessit.

But the joyful phantom exults before the foremost lines, and provokes the man with weapons and challenges him with its voice.

Instat cui Turnus stridentemque eminus hastam conicit: illa dato vertit vestigia tergo.

Turnus presses upon it, and from afar a whizzing spear he hurls: it turns its steps, showing its back.

Tum vero Aenean aversum ut cedere Turnus credidit atque animo spem turbidus hausit inanem, 'Quo fugis, Aenea?

Then indeed, when Turnus believed that Aeneas had turned and fled and in his confused mind drank in an empty hope, "Where are you fleeing, Aeneas?"

Thalamos ne desere pactos; hac dabitur dextra tellus quaesita per undas.'

Do not desert the plighted bridal chamber; the land you sought across the waves shall be given by this right hand."

Talia vociferans sequitur strictumque coruscat mucronem nec ferre videt sua gaudia ventos.

Shouting such things, he pursues and brandishes his drawn blade, nor does he see that the winds are carrying away his joys.

Forte ratis celsi coniuncta crepidine saxi expositis stabat scalis et ponte parato, qua rex Clusinis advectus Osinius oris.

By chance, a ship joined to the ledge of a high rock stood with ladders let down and a gangway ready, on which king Osinius had been carried from the shores of Clusium.

Huc sese trepida Aeneae fugientis imago conicit in latebras; nec Turnus segnior instat exsuperatque moras et pontis transilit altos.

Hither the trembling phantom of the fleeing Aeneas throws itself into hiding; nor does Turnus pursue less eagerly, and conquers all delays and leaps across the high gangways.

Vix proram attigerat: rumpit Saturnia funem avolsamque rapit revoluta per aequora navem.

Hardly had he touched the prow when Saturnian Juno bursts the rope and carries the torn-away ship through the rolling waters.

Illum autem Aeneas absentem in praelia poscit; obvia multa virum demittit corpora morti: tum levis haud ultra latebras iam quaerit imago, sed sublime volans nubi se immiscuit atrae.

Meanwhile, Aeneas demands him for battle, though he is absent; he sends down many bodies of men who cross his path to death: then the fleeting phantom seeks hiding places no longer, but flying aloft, it mingled into a dark cloud.

Cum Turnum medio interea fert aequore turbo.

Meanwhile, the whirlwind carries Turnus through the midst of the sea.

Respicit ignarus rerum ingratusque salutis et duplicis cum voce manus ad sidera tendit: 'Omnipotens genitor, tanton me crimine dignum duxisti et talis voluisti expendere poenas?

He looks back, ignorant of the reality and ungrateful for his safety, and with a cry he stretches his twin hands to the stars: "Almighty father, did you deem me worthy of so great a reproach, and did you wish me to pay such a penalty?

Quo feror?

Whither am I borne?

Unde abii?

Whence have I departed?

Quae me fuga quemve reducit?

What flight brings me back, or in what condition?

Laurentisne iterum muros aut castra videbo?

Shall I see the Laurentine walls or camp again?

Quid manus illa virum, qui me meaque arma secuti?

What of that band of men, who followed me and my arms?

Quosne (nefas) omnis infanda in morte reliqui et nunc palantis video gemitumque cadentum accipio!

Whom (oh, the wickedness!) I have left all behind in a shameful death, and now I see them straggling, and [hear] the groan of the falling? for me to welcome you!

Quid ago?

What am I doing?

Aut quae iam satis ima dehiscat terra mihi?

Or what abyss of the earth can now open wide enough for me?

Vos O potius miserescite venti: in rupes, in saxa, volens vos Turnus adoro ferte ratem saevisque vadis immittite Syrtis, quo neque me Rutuli nec conscia fama sequatur.'

You, O winds, have pity rather: onto the cliffs, onto the rocks, I, Turnus, willingly implore you, drive the bark, and cast it upon the savage shallows of the Syrtis, where neither the Rutulians nor mindful fame may follow me."

Haec memorans animo nunc huc, nunc fluctuat illuc, an sese mucrone ob tantum dedecus amens induat et crudum per costas exigat ensem, fluctibus an iaciat mediis et litora nando curva petat Teucrumque iterum se reddat in arma.

Saying this, he wavers in mind now here, now there, whether, frantic over such a great disgrace, he should impale himself upon his blade and drive the raw sword through his ribs, whether he should throw himself into the midst of the waves and by swimming seek the shores, seek the winding shores and return again into the arms of the Trojans.

Ter conatus utramque viam, ter maxima Iuno continuit iuvenemque animi miserata repressit.

Thrice he attempted each way, thrice greatest Juno restrained the youth and, pitying him in her heart, held him back.

Labitur alta secans fluctuque aestuque secundo et patris antiquam Dauni defertur ad urbem.

He glides along, cutting the deep, and with favorable wave and tide and is carried down to the ancient city of his father Daunus.

At Iovis interea monitis Mezentius ardens succedit pugnae Teucrosque invadit ovantis.

But meanwhile, burning at the warnings of Jove, Mezentius enters the battle and attacks the exulting Trojans.

Concurrunt Tyrrhenae acies atque omnibus uni, uni odiisque viro telisque frequentibus instant.

The Etruscan ranks rush together, and against one man alone, against one man alone they press with all their hatred and thick-flying darts.

Ille velut rupes, vastum quae prodit in aequor, obvia ventorum furiis expostaque ponto, vim cunctam atque minas perfert caelique marisque, ipsa immota manens, prolem Dolichaonis Hebrum sternit humi, cum quo Latagum Palmumque fugacem, sed Latagum saxo atque ingenti fragmine montis occupat os faciemque adversam, poplite Palmum succiso volvi segnem sinit, armaque Lauso donat habere umeris et vertice figere cristas.

He is like a cliff that juts out into the vast sea, meeting the furies of the winds and exposed to the deep, which endures all the force and threats of both sky and sea, itself remaining unmoved; Hebrus, the offspring of Dolichaon, he stretches on the ground, and with him Latagus and the fleeing Palmus, but Latagus, with a stone and a huge fragment of a mountain, he strikes full in the mouth and face; Palmus, with his hamstring severed, he leaves to roll helplessly, and his armor to Lausus he gives to wear on his shoulders and to fix the crests upon his head.

Nec non Euanthen Phrygium Paridisque Mimanta aequalem comitemque, una quem nocte Theano in lucem genitori Amyco dedit et face praegnans Cisseis regina Parin creat: urbe paterna occubat, ignarum Laurens habet ora Mimanta.

Likewise Phrygian Euanthes, and Mimas, the companion and peer of Paris, whom in one and the same night Theano brought into the light for his father Amycus, and, pregnant with a torch, the queen, daughter of Cisseus, gave birth to Paris; in his native city he lies, while the Laurentine shore holds the unknown Mimas.

Ac velut ille canum morsu de montibus altis actus aper, multos Vesulus quem pinifer annos defendit multosve palus Laurentia, silva pastus harundinea, postquam inter retia ventum est, substitit infremuitque ferox et inhorruit armos, nec cuiquam irasci propiusque accedere virtus, sed iaculis tutisque procul clamoribus instant; haud aliter, iustae quibus est Mezentius irae, non ulli est animus stricto concurrere ferro; missilibus longe et vasto clamore lacessunt: ille autem impavidus partis cunctatur in omnis, dentibus infrendens, et tergo decutit hastas.

And just as that boar, driven by the biting of hounds from the high mountains, As a wild boar, driven from the pine-bearing mountains of Vesulus where for many years he has found shelter, or from the Laurentian marsh, where he has fed in the reedy woods, once he has come among the nets, stops, roars fiercely, and bristles the hair on his shoulders, and no one has the courage to show anger or approach closer, but they press him from a safe distance with darts and shouting; just so, among those who have a righteous anger against Mezentius, none has the heart to clash with drawn steel; they provoke him from afar with missiles and a great shout, while he, undaunted, turns slowly in every direction, gnashing his teeth, and shakes the spears from his back.

Venerat antiquis Corythi de finibus Acron, Graius homo, infectos linquens profugus hymenaeos.

Acron had come from the ancient territory of Corythus, a Greek man, fleeing as an exile and leaving his marriage incomplete.

Hunc ubi miscentem longe media agmina vidit, purpureum pennis et pactae coniugis ostro: impastus stabula alta leo ceu saepe peragrans, suadet enim vesana fames, si forte fugacem conspexit capream aut surgentem in cornua cervum, gaudet, hians immane, comasque arrexit et haeret visceribus super accumbens, lavit inproba taeter ora cruor, sic ruit in densos alacer Mezentius hostis.

When Mezentius saw him from afar, spreading confusion in the midst of the ranks, bright with the plumes and purple robes of his betrothed bride—just as an unfed lion often ranging through the deep pastures, for a mad hunger drives him, if by chance he espies a fleeing roe-deer or a stag with towering antlers, rejoices, opening his jaws immensely, and rears his mane, and fastens himself crouching over the vitals, while foul blood washes his ravenous jaws, so Mezentius rushes eagerly into the thick of the enemy.

Sternitur infelix Acron et calcibus atram tundit humum expirans infractaque tela cruentat.

The ill-fated Acron is laid low, and with his heels beats the dark ground as he breathes his last, and stains the broken weapons with his blood.

Atque idem fugientem haud est dignatus Oroden sternere nec iacta caecum dare cuspide volnus: obvius adversoque occurrit seque viro vir contulit, haud furto melior, sed fortibus armis.

And Mezentius did not even deign to strike down Orodes as he fled, nor to inflict a hidden wound with a thrown spear-point; he ran to meet him face to face, and engaged him man to man, proving himself superior not by stealth, but by brave deeds of arms.

Tum super abiectum posito pede nixus et hasta: 'Pars belli haud temnenda, viri, iacet altus Orodes.'

Then, pressing upon him with his foot and leaning on his spear, he cried above the prostrate foe: 'A portion of the war by no means to be despised, O men, lies here, the noble Orodes.'

Conclamant socii laetum paeana secuti.

His comrades shout in response, following him with a joyful paean of victory.

Ille autem exspirans: 'Non me, quicumque es, inulto, victor, nec longum laetabere: te quoque fata prospectant paria atque eadem mox arva tenebis.'

But he, breathing his last, replied: 'Not over me, whoever you are, unavenged, shall you rejoice as victor, nor for long; for you also a similar destiny awaits, and you shall soon occupy these very same fields.'

Ad quae subridens mixta Mezentius ira: 'Nunc morere.

To this, Mezentius smiled with a mixture of anger: 'Die now.

Ast de me divom pater atque hominum rex viderit.'

But as for me, let the father of the gods and the king of men see to it.'

Hoc dicens eduxit corpore telum: olli dura quies oculos et ferreus urget somnus, in aeternam clauduntur lumina noctem.

Saying this, he drew the weapon from the body; a harsh rest and an iron sleep weigh down the victim's eyes, and his vision closes into everlasting night.

Caedicus Alcathoum obtruncat, Sacrator Hydaspen Partheniumque Rapo et praedurum viribus Orsen, Messapus Croniumque Lycaoniumque Erichaeten, illum infrenis equi lapsu tellure iacentem, hunc peditem.

Caedicus slaughters Alcathous, Sacrator slays Hydaspes, and Rapo kills Parthenius and Orses, a man of stubborn strength; Messapus cuts down Cronius and Erichaetes, son of Lycaon— the former lying on the ground from the fall of his unbridled horse, the latter on foot.

Pedes et Lycius processerat Agis, quem tamen haud expers Valerus virtutis avitae deicit; at Thronium Salius Saliumque Nealces insidiis, iaculo et longe fallente sagitta.

Agis the Lycian had also advanced on foot, whom Valerus, by no means lacking his ancestral courage, casts down; while Salius slays Thronius, and Nealces slays Salius, by ambush, with the javelin and the arrow that deceives from afar.

Iam gravis aequabat luctus et mutua Mavors funera: caedebant pariter pariterque ruebant victores victique, neque his fuga nota neque illis.

Now heavy grief and mutual slaughter were balanced by Mars; equally they dealt death, and equally they fell, the victors and the vanquished, and flight was known neither to these nor to those.

Di Iovis in tectis iram miserantur inanem amborum et tantos mortalibus esse labores: hinc Venus, hinc contra spectat Saturnia Iuno, pallida Tisiphone media inter milia saevit.

In the halls of Jove, the gods pity the useless wrath of both sides, and that such great sufferings should belong to mortals; on one side Venus watches, on the other Saturnian Juno stands opposite, while pale Tisiphone rages in the midst of the thousands.

At vero ingentem quatiens Mezentius hastam turbidus ingreditur campo.

But now Mezentius, shaking a massive spear, advances like a whirlwind onto the field.

Quam magnus Orion, cum pedes incedit medii per maxima Nerei stagna viam scindens, umero supereminet undas aut summis referens annosam montibus ornum ingrediturque solo et caput inter nubila condit: talis se vastis infert Mezentius armis.

Great as Orion, when he walks on foot through the deepest pools of Nereus cleaving his path, and towers with his shoulder above the waves, or when, bringing down an ancient ash from the mountain tops, he walks upon the ground and hides his head among the clouds: such does Mezentius stride along in his massive armor.

Huic contra Aeneas, speculatus in agmine longo, obvius ire parat.

Against him Aeneas, having spotted him in the long battle line, prepares to go to meet him.

Manet imperterritus ille, hostem magnanimum opperiens, et mole sua stat; atque oculis spatium emensus, quantum satis hastae: 'Dextra mihi deus et telum, quod missile libro, nunc adsint!

The other stands undaunted, awaiting his high-souled enemy, and stands firm in his own massive bulk; and measuring with his eyes the distance, as much as is enough for his spear, says: "May my right hand, my god, and the weapon which I poise to cast, now aid me!

Voveo praedonis corpore raptis indutum spoliis ipsum te, Lause, tropaeum Aeneae.'

I vow that you yourself, Lausus, clothed in the spoils stripped from the body of the robber, shall be the trophy of Aeneas."

Dixit stridentemque eminus hastam iecit; at illa volans clipeo est excussa proculque egregium Antoren latus inter et ilia figit, Herculis Antoren comitem, qui missus ab Argis haeserat Euandro atque Itala consederat urbe.

He spoke, and from afar hurled his hissing spear; but as it flew, it was deflected from the shield and far away pierces the noble Antores between the side and the flank, Antores, the companion of Hercules, who, sent from Argos, had attached himself to Evander and settled in an Italian city.

Sternitur infelix alieno volnere caelumque aspicit et dulcis moriens reminiscitur Argos tum pius Aeneas hastam iacit: illa per orbem aere cavum triplici, per linea terga tribusque transit intextum tauris opus imaque sedit inguine, sed viris haud pertulit.

He falls, unhappy man, by a wound meant for another, and looks up at the sky, and dying, remembers his sweet Argos. Then pious Aeneas hurls his spear: it passed through the shield's disk hollow with triple bronze, through the linen layers, and three text-woven it pierced the fabric woven with bulls and settled deep in the groin in the groin, but it did not carry through its full force.

Ocius ensem Aeneas, viso Tyrrheni sanguine laetus, eripit a femine et trepidanti fervidus instat.

Swiftly Aeneas rejoicing at the sight of the Etruscan's blood, snatched his sword from his thigh and pressed fiercely upon his trembling foe.

Ingemuit cari graviter genitoris amore, ut vidit, Lausus, lacrimaeque per ora volutae.

Lausus groaned heavily out of love for his dear father, when he saw this, and tears rolled down his face.

Hic mortis durae casum tuaque optima facta, siqua fidem tanto est operi latura vetustas, non equidem nec te, iuvenis memorande, silebo.

Here, the misfortune of your harsh death and your most noble deeds, if any future age is to bring belief to such a great exploit, I will indeed not pass over in silence, nor you, young man to be remembered.

Ille pedem referens et inutilis inque ligatus cedebat clipeoque inimicum hastile trahebat: prorupit iuvenis seseque immiscuit armis iamque adsurgentis dextra plagamque ferentis Aeneae subiit mucronem ipsumque morando sustinuit.

He, retreating, disabled and encumbered, was giving way, dragging the enemy's spear in his shield: the youth burst forward and threw himself into the fray and just as Aeneas was rising with his right hand and dealing a blow, he met the point of the sword and checked him by delaying his attack.

Socii magno clamore sequuntur, dum genitor nati parma protectus abiret, telaque coniciunt proturbantque eminus hostem missilibus.

His companions follow with a great shout, while the father, protected by his son's shield, might withdraw, and they hurl missiles and drive back the enemy from a distance with weapons.

Furit Aeneas tectusque tenet se.

Aeneas rages, and keeps himself covered.

Ac velut effusa siquando grandine nimbi praecipitant, omnis campis diffugit arator omnis et agricola et tuta latet arce viator, aut amnis ripis aut alti fornice saxi, dum pluit in terris, ut possint sole reducto exercere diem: sic obrutus undique telis Aeneas nubem belli, dum detonet omnis, sustinet et Lausum increpitat Lausoque minatur: 'Quo moriture ruis maioraque viribus audes?

And just as when storm-clouds pour down with a shower of hail, every plowman flees from the fields, every farmer too, and the traveler hides in a safe shelter, either beneath the banks of a river or the arch of a high rock, while it rains upon the earth, so that when the sun returns they may to wear out the day: so, overwhelmed from all sides by weapons, Aeneas endures the cloud of war, until it all thunders out, and chides Lausus, and threatens Lausus: "Where do you rush to your death, and dare things greater than your strength?

Fallit te incautum pietas tua.'

Your devotion deceives you, incautious as you are."

Nec minus ille exsultat demens; saevae iamque altius irae Dardanio surgunt ductori, extremaque Lauso Parcae fila legunt: validum namque exigit ensem per medium Aeneas iuvenem totumque recondit.

Nonetheless, he exults madly; and now savage rages rise higher for the Dardanian leader, and the Fates gather the final threads for Lausus: for Aeneas drives his powerful sword through the middle of the youth, and buries it entirely.

Transiit et parmam mucro, levia arma minacis, et tunicam, molli mater quam neverat auro, implevitque sinum sanguis; tum vita per auras concessit maesta ad manis corpusque reliquit.

The blade passed both through his shield, the light armor of a threatening man, and the tunic, which his mother had woven with soft gold, and blood filled his breast; then his life departed through the breezes, mournful, to the spirits of the dead, and left his body.

At vero ut voltum vidit morientis et ora, ora modis Anchisiades pallentia miris, ingemuit miserans graviter dextramque tetendit, et mentem patriae subiit pietatis imago.

But indeed, when the son of Anchises saw the look and face of the dying man, the face growing pale in wondrous ways, he groaned deeply in pity and stretched out his right hand, and the image of his own devotion to his father touched his mind.

'Quid tibi nunc, miserande puer, pro laudibus istis, quid pius Aeneas tanta dabit indole dignum?

"What now, pitiable boy, in return for those praises of yours, what will dutiful Aeneas give you that is worthy of such a nature?

Arma, quibus laetatus, habe tua, teque parentum manibus et cineri, siqua est ea cura, remitto.

Keep your armor, in which you rejoiced, and I return you to the spirits and ashes of your ancestors, if that is any care to you.

Hoc tamen infelix miseram solabere mortem: Aeneae magni dextra cadis.'

Yet, unhappy one, you will console your wretched death with this: you fall by the right hand of great Aeneas."

Increpat ultro cunctantis socios et terra sublevat ipsum, sanguine turpantem comptos de more capillos.

He goes so far as to chide the hesitating companions, and lifts the boy himself from the ground, fouling with blood his hair, combed according to custom.

Interea genitor Tiberini ad fluminis undam volnera siccabat lymphis corpusque levabat arboris adclinis trunco.

Meanwhile, his father by the wave of the Tiber river was staunching his wounds with water and easing his body, leaning against the trunk of a tree.

Procul aerea ramis dependet galea et prato gravia arma quiescunt.

Far off, his bronze helmet hangs from the branches, and his heavy arms rest upon the meadow.

Stant lecti circum iuvenes: ipse aeger anhelans colla fovet, fusus propexam in pectore barbam; multa super Lauso rogitat multumque remittit qui revocent maestique ferant mandata parentis.

Chosen warriors stand around him; he himself, sick and panting, eases his neck, pouring out his combed beard over his chest; he asks many things about Lausus, and sends many messengers back to recall him and carry the commands of a sorrowful father.

At Lausum socii exanimem super arma ferebant flentes, ingentem atque ingenti volnere victum.

But his weeping companions were carrying the lifeless Lausus upon his armor, a mighty man and conquered by a mighty wound.

Agnovit longe gemitum praesaga mali mens: canitiem multo deformat pulvere et ambas ad caelum tendit palmas et corpore inhaeret.

His mind, foreboding evil, recognized their groan from afar; he defiles his grey hair with much dust, and stretches both palms to heaven, and clings to the body.

'Tantane me tenuit vivendi, nate, voluptas, ut pro me hostili paterer succedere dextrae, quem genui?

"Did such great desire for living hold me, my son, that I should suffer him whom I begot to take my place under the enemy's hand, instead of me?

Tuane haec genitor per volnera servor, morte tua vivens?

Am I, your father, saved through these wounds of yours, living by your death?

Heu, nunc misero mihi demum exitium infelix, nunc alte volnus adactum!

Alas, now at last is exile bitter to miserable me, now at last is the wound driven deep!

Idem ego, nate, tuum maculavi crimine nomen, pulsus ob invidiam solio sceptrisque paternis.

I too, my son, stained your name with my crime, driven because of hatred from the throne and my father's scepter.

Debueram patriae poenas odiisque meorum: omnis per mortis animam sontem ipse dedissem!

I owed punishment to my country and to the hatred of my people; I should have given up my guilty life myself through every kind of death!

Nunc vivo neque adhuc homines lucemque relinquo.

Now I live, and do not yet leave mankind and the light.

Sed linquam.'

But I will leave them."

Simul hoc dicens attollit in aegrum se femur et, quamvis dolor alto volnere tardet, haud deiectus equum duci iubet.

Saying this, at the same time he raises himself upon his wounded thigh, and although the pain slows him down from the deep wound, not cast down, he orders his horse to be led to him.

Hoc decus illi, hoc solamen erat; bellis hoc victor abibat omnibus.

This was his pride, this was his solace; with this he used to depart victorious from all his battles.

Adloquitur maerentem et talibus infit: 'Rhaebe, diu, res siqua diu mortalibus ulla est, viximus.

He addresses the grieving beast and begins with these words: 'Rhaebus, we have lived a long time, if anything is long for mortals, we have lived.

Aut hodie victor spolia illa cruenti et caput Aeneae referes Lausique dolorum ultor eris mecum aut, aperit si nulla viam vis, occumbes pariter; neque enim, fortissime, credo, iussa aliena pati et dominos dignabere Teucros.'

Either today as victor you will bring back those spoils and the head of bloody Aeneas, and you will be the avenger of Lausus's griefs with me, or, if no force opens a path, you will fall beside me; for I do not believe, most gallant beast, that you will deign to endure foreign commands and Trojan masters.'

Dixit et exceptus tergo consueta locavit membra manusque ambas iaculis oneravit acutis, aere caput fulgens cristaque hirsutus equina.

He spoke, and being received on its back, he settled his accustomed limbs, and loaded both hands with sharp javelins, his head gleaming with bronze and bristling with a horse-hair crest.

Sic cursum in medios rapidus dedit: aestuat ingens uno in corde pudor mixtoque insania luctu, [et furiis agitatus amor et conscia virtus.]

Thus swiftly he spurred his course into their midst; a great shame seethes in his single heart, and madness mixed with grief, [and love driven by furies, and conscious virtue.]

Atque hic Aenean magna ter voce vocavit.

And here he called Aeneas three times with a loud voice.

Aeneas agnovit enim laetusque precatur: 'Sic pater ille deum faciat, sic altus Apollo, incipias conferre manum.'

For Aeneas recognized him and joyfully prays: 'May the great father of the gods so bring it to pass, may noble Apollo so grant, that you begin to join battle hand-to-hand.'

Tantum effatus et infesta subit obvius hasta.

Having spoken only this much, he moves to meet him with a hostile spear.

Ille autem: 'Quid me erepto, saevissime, nato terres?

But he replied: 'Why do you try to terrify me, most cruel man, now that my son has been torn from me?

Haec via sola fuit, qua perdere posses.

This was the only way by which you could destroy me.

Nec mortem horremus nec divom parcimus ulli.

Neither do I fear death, nor do I heed any of the gods.

Desine: nam venio moriturus et haec tibi porto dona prius.'

Cease; for I come ready to die, and I bring these gifts for you first.'

Dixit telumque intorsit in hostem; inde aliud super atque aliud figitque volatque ingenti gyro, sed sustinet aureus umbo.

He spoke, and hurled a spear at his enemy; then after it he plants another and yet another, and flies in a vast circle, but the golden boss sustains them.

Ter circum adstantem laevos equitavit in orbes tela manu iaciens, ter secum Troius heros immanem aerato circumfert tegmine silvam.

Three times he rode in leftward circles around him as he stood, throwing spears from his hand; three times the Trojan hero carries around with him a massive forest of spears on his bronze-shielded guard.

Inde ubi tot traxisse moras, tot spicula taedet vellere et urgetur pugna congressus iniqua, multa movens animo iam tandem erumpit et inter bellatoris equi cava tempora conicit hastam.

Then, when he is weary of drawing out so many delays, of plucking out so many darts, and is hard pressed, locked in an unequal combat, pondering many things in his mind, at last he breaks forth and hurls his spear right between the hollow temples of the warrior horse.

Tollit se arrectum quadrupes et calcibus auras verberat effusumque equitem super ipse secutus implicat eiectoque incumbit cernuus armo.

The beast rears up erect, beats the air with its hooves, and following upon the unseated rider, throws him, entangles him, and falls headlong down, weighing upon his dislocated shoulder.

Clamore incendunt caelum Troesque Latinique.

Both Trojans and Latins set the sky ablaze with shouts.

Advolat Aeneas vaginaque eripit ensem et super haec: 'Ubi nunc Mezentius acer et illa effera vis animi?

Aeneas flies to him, snatches his sword from its scabbard, and standing over him, says: "Where is the fierce Mezentius now, and that savage wildness of soul?"

'Contra Tyrrhenus, ut auras suspiciens hausit caelum mentemque recepit: 'Hostis amare, quid increpitas mortemque minaris?

In reply, the Etruscan, as gazing up at the air he drank in the sky and recovered his senses, said: "Bitter enemy, why do you chide me and threaten death?

Nullum in caede nefas, nec sic ad proelia veni, nec tecum meus haec pepigit mihi foedera Lausus.

There is no sin in my slaughter, nor did I come to battle on such terms, nor did my Lausus forge such a compact with you for me.

Unum hoc per siqua est victis venia hostibus oro: corpus humo patiare tegi.

This one thing I pray, if any mercy is due to conquered enemies: suffer my body to be covered with earth.

Scio acerba meorum circumstare odia: hunc, oro, defende furorem et me consortem nati concede sepulchro.'

I know that the bitter hatred of my people surrounds me: ward off this fury, I pray, and grant me to be a companion to my son in the tomb."

Haec loquitur iuguloque haud inscius accipit ensem undantique animam diffundit in arva cruore.

He spoke these words, and not unaware, received the sword in his throat and poured forth his life onto the fields in a wave of blood.