I.220-253


 * //Aeneid// I.220-253**



**220 praecipue pius Aeneas nunc acris Oronti,** Pious Aeneas especially laments the misfortune of spirited Orontes now, //ellipses - casum gemit used throughout// **nunc Amyci casum gemit et crudelia secum**  now he mourns the misfortune of Amycus **fata Lyci fortemque Gyan fortemque Cloanthum.** and the cruel fates of Lycus with himself and brave Gyus and brave Cloanthus. //mourns misfortune, then fate, then guys// //Gyan: Greek acc.//

**Et iam finis erat, cum Iuppiter aethere summo** And now was the end, when Jupiter, looking down from the **despiciens mare velivolum terrasque iacentes**  top of heaven, onto the sea winged with sails and the lying grounds (the lands lying outspread) //velivolum: transferred epithet// **225 litoraque et latos populos, sic vertice caeli** and the shores and the wide peoples, thus //polyptoton// //wide peoples: (spread of civilizations) // **constitit et Libyae defixit lumina regnis.** he rested on the summit of the sky and fastened his eyes on the kingdoms of Libya. **atque illum tales iactantem pectore curas** And Venus, sadder and having been filled with respect to her shining eyes with tears, //enjambment - Venus// **tristior et lacrimis oculos suffusa nitentes** addresses him (Jupiter), throwing about such cares in his heart: //oculos: acc. of respect// **adloquitur Venus: “O qui res hominumque deumque** "O you who rule matters of both man and god

**230 aeternis regis imperiis et fulmine terres,** with eternal commands, and terrify with lightning, **quid meus Aeneas in te committere tantum,** what so great (thing/offense) (has) my Aeneas (been able) to commit against you,

**quid Troes potuere, quibus tot funera passis** what (so great offense) have the Trojans been able (to commit against you), for whom, having suffered so many deaths, //potuere: syncopation and elipsis// //quid, quid: anaphora// **cunctus ob Italiam terrarum clauditur orbis?** the whole world is closed on account of Italy? //terrarum orbis - world// //can't go anywhere because somebodies trying to prevent them from getting to Italy// //Hyperbole-cunctus terrarum orbis//

**certe hinc Romanos olim volventibus annis,** Certainly, you have promised from here that (there would be) Romans at some time, with the years rolling by

**235 hinc fore ductores, revocato a sanguine Teucri,** (you have promised) from here there would be leaders, from the restored blood of Teucer, //hinc, hinc: anaphora// //fore: futurum esse// //elipsis: fore//

**qui mare, qui terras omnes dicione tenerent,** who (would hold) the sea, who would hold all the lands with rule- //qui, qui: anaphora// //elipsis: tenerent//

**pollicitus** (es) **- quae te, genitor, sententia vertit?** which opinion turns you, father? //genitor vocative//

**hoc equidem occasum Troiae tristesque ruinas** Indeed I, balancing the opposing fates with fates, was **solabar fatis contraria fata rependens;** ** consoling myself for this fall of Troy and the sad ruins; ** //fatis, fata: polyptoton//

**240 nunc eadem fortuna viros tot casibus actos** now the same misfortune follows these men driven by so many (mis)fortunes //actos->viros//

**insequitur. quem das finem, rex magne, laborum?** What end of their works, great king, do you give? //rex magne: vocative// //laborum: gen//

**Antenor potuit mediis elapsus Achivis** Antenor, having slipped out from the middle of the Greeks (fighting around Troy), was able to, safe, **Illyricos penetrare sinus atque intima tutus** enter the Illyrian gulfs and also the innermost //Illyria: Greek//

**regna Liburnorum et fontem superare Timavi,** realms of the Liburnians, and pass beyond the source of Timavus,



//Liburnians: savages who hate strangers// //Timavus: underground river//

//Antenor safe even with Greeks//

**245 unde per ora novem vasto cum murmure montis** from where it (the river) goes //(it)//, as a dashing sea, with a vast roar of a mountain,

**it mare proruptum et pelago premit arva sonanti.** through the nine mouths and overwhelms the fields with its resounding/roaring flood. //venus is still talking to Juppiter (look at Antenor who survived in the Greek's hood)//

**hic tamen ille urbem Patavi sedesque locavit** Here however he placed the city of Patavus and the

**Teucrorum et genti nomen dedit armaque fixit** abodes of the Trojans and he gave his name to the people and he fastened

**Troia, nunc placida compostus pace quiescit:**   the Trojan arms (hung them up in a temple to represent peace), now, having been settled, he rests in peaceful peace:  //troia: adj.//   //peaceful peace: pleonasm// **250 nos, tua progenies, caeli quibus adnuis arcem,** We, your offspring (Aeneas, venus, trojans-> singular collective noun), to whom you promise the citadel of heaven,

**navibus (infandum!) amissis unius ob iram** with the ships having been lost (O the unspeakable thing!), on account of the anger of one (Juno)

**prodimur atque Italis longe disiungimur oris.** are betrayed and are scattered far from the Italian shores. I//talis: adj//

**hic pietatis honos (est)? Sic nos in sceptra reponis?”** Is this the reward for duty? You restore us to power in this way (//sarcasm//)?"